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Short-term effect of acute and repeated urinary bladder inflammation on thigmotactic behaviour in the laboratory rat [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/56e]
Rosemary H Morland, Amparo Novejarque, Wenlong Huang, Rachel Wodarski, Franziska Denk, John D Dawes, Tim Pheby, Stephen B McMahon, Andrew SC Rice
 

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Transgenic supplementation of SIRT1 fails to alleviate acute loss of nigrostriatal dopamine neurons and gliosis in a mouse model of MPTP-induced parkinsonism [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5a9]
Yasuko Kitao, Natsumi Ageta-Ishihara, Ryosuke Takahashi, Makoto Kinoshita, Osamu Hori

Developmental biology teaching – the importance of a practical approach [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5fn]
John F Mulley