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Opioid Electrophysiology in PAG

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  1. Discipline of Pharmacology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    MacDonald J. Christie

  2. Dept Anatomy & Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Peregrine B. Osborne

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Pain Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Gerald F. Gebhart

  2. Physiologisches Institut der, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Robert F. Schmidt

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Christie, M.J., Osborne, P.B. (2013). Opioid Electrophysiology in PAG. In: Gebhart, G.F., Schmidt, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28753-4_2947

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