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Differential effects of two local anaesthetics on viability of skin keratinocytes in vitro

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  1. Laboratory of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Evangelia Lekoudi, Evangelos Kontargiris, Ilias V. Karagounis, Yannis V. Simos, Ioannis-Konstantinos Deligiannis, Angelos Evangelou & Vasiliki Kalfakakou

  2. Department of Nursing, Epirus Institute of Technology (T.E.I. of Epirus), Ioannina, Greece

    Evangelos Kontargiris

  3. Director of Pain Centre of Athens, Medical Centre, Athens, Greece

    Athina Vadalouka

  4. Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Ioannis D. Bassukas

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Lekoudi, E., Kontargiris, E., Karagounis, I.V. et al. Differential effects of two local anaesthetics on viability of skin keratinocytes in vitro. Eur J Dermatol 28, 409–410 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1684/ejd.2018.3275

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