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Optical Microscopy as a Tool for Studying Sex Differences in Pain and Analgesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2020

Martin Wessendorf
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Nai-Jiang Liu
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Emiliya Storman
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Alan Gintzler
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, New York, United States

Abstract

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Type
Illuminating Health and Disease at New Frontiers of Spatiotemporal Resolution and Adaptive Microscopy
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2020

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