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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
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Injuries to restrained occupants in far-side crashes.
Occupants exposed to far-side crashes are those seated on the side of the vehicle opposite the struck side. This study uses the… 
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
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors modulate the excitability of an identified insect motoneuron.
1. With the use of an isolated, perfused ganglion preparation from the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, we have examined 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
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
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Localization of retractor bulbi motoneurons in the rabbit
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
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Quaternary and tertiary structure of haemerythrin
THE oligomeric protein haemerythrin is an oxygen-transport pigment found in erythrocytes of the coelomic fluid of certain… 
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
1952
Highly Cited
1952
Muscle contraction and fibrous muscle proteins.
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