Cerebrospinal fluid pressures during dynamic contusion-type spinal cord injury in a pig model
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Primary Author: Claire F. Jones (PhD Candidate) Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Laboratory, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedics / International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, University of British Columbia, 818 West 10 Avenue, Vancouver B.C. Canada, V5Z-1M9, tel: (604) 675-8845, fax: (604) 675-8849 Supervisor: Peter A. Cripton, PhD Start date: Jan. 2006 Expected graduation: Dec. 2010
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