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Periodic Nature of Spontaneous Peripheral Nervous System Activity

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    A. A. ALEXANDER,  ROBERT ROESSLER &  NORMAN S. GREENFIELD

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ALEXANDER, A., ROESSLER, R. & GREENFIELD, N. Periodic Nature of Spontaneous Peripheral Nervous System Activity. Nature 197, 1169–1170 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1971169a0

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