2. Cold trance or transplant?

3. Stroke of luck

4. Waking, meeting, sleeping, mating

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Paper:
Delta Opioid Peptide Augments Functional Effects and Intrastriatal Graft Survival of Rat Fetal Ventral Mesencephalic Cells, Cesario Borlongan et al, Cell Transplant. 2001 Jan-Feb;10(1):53-8.

Treatment with Delta Opioid Peptide Enhances in vitro and in vivo Survival of Rat Dopaminergic Neurons, Cesario Borlongan et al, Neuroreport. 2000 Apr 7;11(5):923-6.

"Lessons learned from a long winter's nap," Steve Nadis, National Wildlife, Feb/Mar 2003.

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