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Tactile (Merkel's) cells of sinuous hairs after colchicine application to a nerve in cats

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    Yu. A. Chelyshev & R. I. Vinter

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Translated from Arkhiv Anatomii, Gistologii i Embriologii, Vol. 79, No. 8, pp. 39–48, August, 1980.

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Chelyshev, Y.A., Vinter, R.I. Tactile (Merkel's) cells of sinuous hairs after colchicine application to a nerve in cats. Neurosci Behav Physiol 14, 110–117 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01185215

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