Chapter 3. Sixty years of C-fiber recordings from animal and human skin nerves: Historical notes

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 113, Issue C, 1996, Pages 39-51

  Handwerker, H O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN NERVE;

EID: 0030479308     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)61080-8     Document Type: Article

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