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Commentary

Injury-Related Synaptic Plasticity for the Treatment of Chronic Pain: A New Approach?

Min Zhuo1 Center for Neuron & Disease, Frontier Institute of Science & Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an710049, China;2 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 27 King’s College Cir, Toronto, ONM5S 1A8, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 161-165 | Published online: 14 May 2015

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