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Translated from Arkhiv Anatomii, Gistologii i Émbriologii, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 33–42, March, 1980.
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Motorina, M.V. Motor nucleus structure in the rat spinal cord during postnatal development: A light-optic and electron-microscopic study. Neurosci Behav Physiol 12, 440–447 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01189310
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