Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in human genetic transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
✍ Scribed by Anna Ladogana; Pascual Sanchez-Juan; Eva Mitrová; Alison Green; Natividad Cuadrado-Corrales; Raquel Sánchez-Valle; Silvia Koscova; Adriano Aguzzi; Theodoros Sklaviadis; Jerzy Kulczycki; Joanna Gawinecka; Albert Saiz; Miguel Calero; Cornelia M. van Duijn; Maurizio Pocchiari; Richard Knight; Inga Zerr
- Book ID
- 106094478
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 235 KB
- Volume
- 256
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5354
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