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Volume 151, Issue 2 , Pages 241-242 , November 2010

Close encounters of the third kind: Evidence for contact with TNF-alpha

Received 12 July 2010 ,Accepted 20 July 2010.

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PII: S0304-3959(10)00447-1

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.07.025

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Volume 151, Issue 2 , Pages 241-242 , November 2010

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