What Good Are Animal Models?

Models of Seizures and Epilepsy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 659-668

  Schwartzkroin, Philip A ^a   Engel, Jerome ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34249789903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088554-1/50054-2     Document Type: Chapter

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