How does nerve injury strengthen ia-motoneuron synapses?

Motor Neurobiology of the Spinal Cord

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 271-304

  Cope, Timothy C ^a   Seburn, Kevin ^b   Buck, Charles R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

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