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Kaloustian, Sévan ; Wann, Boubacar P ; Bah, Thierno M ; Falcao, Stéphanie ; Dufort, Anne-Marie ; et. al. Celecoxib after the onset of reperfusion reduces apoptosis in the amygdala.. In: Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death, Vol. 12, no. 11, p. 1945-51 (2007)