“Gliopathy” maintains persistent hyperexcitability of spinal dorsal horn neurons after spinal cord injury: Substrate of central neuropathic pain

Horizons in Neuroscience Research

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 195-224

  Gwak, Young S ^a   Hulsebosch, Claire E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

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