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Sympathetic vascular transduction and baroreflex sensitivity in the context of severe COPD

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This work was supported by a grant (GTN1007557) from the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia to VGM.

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  2. Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Level 6, 75 Commercial Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia

    Vaughan G. Macefield

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Sesa-Ashton, G., Macefield, V.G. Sympathetic vascular transduction and baroreflex sensitivity in the context of severe COPD. Clin Auton Res 34, 219–222 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-023-01003-2

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