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Brain Research

Volume 38, Issue 2, 24 March 1972, Pages 440-445
Brain Research

Mossy and climbing fiber projections of extraocular muscle afferents to the cerebellum

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    This research was supported in part by U.S. Public Health Service Research Grant No. NS 09916-01 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.

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