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Volume 130, Issue 1 , Pages 166-176 , July 2007

Mast cell degranulation activates a pain pathway underlying migraine headache

Received 20 September 2006 ,Revised 13 February 2007 ,Accepted 6 March 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.03.012

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