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Spinal Cord Mapping of Respiratory Intercostal Motoneurons in Adult Mice

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We thank Dr. Xuejiao Tan and Dr. Lei Zhang for help in language editing the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31921003), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC2000301) and the National Major Project of China Science and Technology Innovation 2030 for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Technology (2021ZD0203400).

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    Junhong Zhang, Wu Li & Wei Xiong

  2. Department of Physiology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Army Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China

    Fenlan Luo, Shuancheng Ren, Yaling Wang, Kan Xu, Ziyi Zheng, Chao He, Jianxia Xia & Zhi-An Hu

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Zhang, J., Luo, F., Ren, S. et al. Spinal Cord Mapping of Respiratory Intercostal Motoneurons in Adult Mice. Neurosci. Bull. 38, 1588–1592 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-022-00883-0

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