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Paroxetine ameliorates whole-body allodynia

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    Hiroki Shiwaku & Toru Nishikawa

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Shiwaku, H., Nishikawa, T. Paroxetine ameliorates whole-body allodynia. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 74, 979–980 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-018-2438-0

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