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The pontobulbar "locomotor strip"

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  1. M. L. Shik
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Institute for Problems in Information Transmission, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 95–97, January–February, 1977.

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Shik, M.L., Yagodnitsyn, A.S. The pontobulbar "locomotor strip". Neurophysiology 9, 72–74 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063548

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