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Structural organization of the synaptic connections of the spinal cord motor neurons of mammals

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Laboratory of the Evolution of Interneuronal, Interaction, I. M Sechenov Institute of, Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg. Translated from Morfologiya, Vol. 105, No. 11-12, pp. 9–36. November–December, 1993.

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Motorina, M.V. Structural organization of the synaptic connections of the spinal cord motor neurons of mammals. Neurosci Behav Physiol 25, 273–289 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02360038

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