A rat is not a monkey is not a human: Comment on Mogil (Nature Rev. Neurosci. 10, 283-294 (2009))

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 466-

  Craig, A D ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; CINGULATE GYRUS; FOREBRAIN; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; STROKE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; PAIN; RATS;

RATTUS;

EID: 66249127207     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2606-c1     Document Type: Letter

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