The role of visceral afferents in disease

Translational Pain Research: From Mouse to Man

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-76

  Christianson, Julie A ^a   Davis, Brian M ^a  

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

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