Neurotrophic factors and nociceptor sensitization

Translational Pain Research: From Mouse to Man

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 31-50

  Jankowski, Michael P ^a   Koerber, H Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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