Specifying the nonspecific components of acupuncture analgesia

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  2013

• Venue

  Pain

• Publication date

  2013-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.pain.2013.05.008PMID 23707680PMCID PMC3981538
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