Neuropeptides
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 253-259 , June 2010

Correlations between angiotensinase activity asymmetries in the brain and paw preference in rats

  • He-ming Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Institute of Functional Brain Disorders of PLA, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Chao Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Institute of Functional Brain Disorders of PLA, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Xue-lian Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Institute of Functional Brain Disorders of PLA, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Ling Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, The 454 Hospital of PLA, Nanjing 210002, China
    • ,
  • Chong-wang Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Institute of Functional Brain Disorders of PLA, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China
    • ,
  • Peng Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Institute of Functional Brain Disorders of PLA, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China
    • ,
  • Guo-dong Gao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Institute of Functional Brain Disorders of PLA, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Institute of Functional Brain Disorders of PLA, The Fourth Military Medical University, 1 Xin’Shi Road, Xi’an, China. Tel.: +86 029 83377435; fax: +86 029 84777435.

Received 27 August 2009 ,Accepted 29 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.npep.2009.12.016

Neuropeptides
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 253-259 , June 2010

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