Neurobiology of Disease Innocuous, Not Noxious, Input Activates PKC Interneurons of the Spinal Dorsal Horn via Myelinated Afferent Fibers
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Simona Neumann,1,2 Joao M. Braz,1,2 Kate Skinner,1,2 Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith,3 and Allan I. Basbaum1,2 Departments of 1Anatomy and 2Physiology and W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, and 3Cardiovascular Medicine and Center for Neuroscience, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042, Australia
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تاریخ انتشار 2008