Are endocannabinoids the basis for neonatal analgesia through non-nutritive sucking?
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Non-nutritive Sucking and Sentence Processing
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1359-2998,1468-2052
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2004.054692