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Retractor, device

Known as: retractors, RETRACTOR, RETRACTOR, ALL TYPES 
A surgical instrument designed to hold back the edges of a surgical incision or maneuver internal anatomic structures within the operating area… 
National Institutes of Health

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RETRACTOR, FIBEROPTICRetractors, Plastic Surgery
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Surgical Instruments

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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Simulation of O2 transport in skeletal muscle: diffusive exchange between arterioles and capillaries.
Theoretical simulations of oxygen transport in skeletal muscle are used to study the role of arterioles in oxygen delivery. A… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
The actions of FMRFamide-like peptides on visceral and somatic muscles of the snail Helix aspersa.
Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2 (FMRFamide) and pyroGlu-Asp-Pro-Phe-Leu-Arg-Phe-NH2 (pQDPFLRFamide) occur in the ganglia and tissues of the… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Accessory abducens nucleus and conditioned eye retraction/nictitating membrane extension in rabbit
The role of accessory abducens nucleus neurons in the conditioned eye retraction/nictitating membrane extension response was… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Cyclic GMP mediates neurogenic relaxation in the bovine retractor penis muscle
1 Field stimulation of the non‐adrenergic, non‐cholinergic inhibitory nerves to the bovine isolated retractor penis muscle evoked… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
The molluscan neurosecretory peptide FMRFamide: comparative pharmacology and relationship to the enkephalins.
The molluscan neuropeptide FMRFamide (Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2) has diverse actions on excitable tissues of molluscs, including hearts… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
The structure and function of serially homologous leg motor neurons in the locust. I. Anatomy.
Twenty-one prothoracic and 17 mesothoracic motor neurons innervating leg muscles have been identified physiologically and… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Pharmacological studies on a locust neuromuscular preparation.
1. The structure-activity relationships of agonists of the locust excitatory neuromuscular synapse have been reinvestigated… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
Conduction in smooth muscle: comparative structural properties.
The individual fibers of smooth muscle of high propagation velocity (e.g. esophagus) are longer and more closely packed than in… 
Highly Cited
1959
Highly Cited
1959
The nature of the phasic and the tonic responses of the anterior byssal retractor muscle of Mytilus
Since Winton (1934) first introduced the anterior byssal retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus into muscle physiology, various… 
Highly Cited
1952
Highly Cited
1952
Muscle contraction and fibrous muscle proteins.
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