Firing up the swallowing mechanism

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1190-1191

  Diamant, Nicholas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; DYSPHAGIA; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DEGLUTITION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0029856194     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1196-1190     Document Type: Note

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