Monoamine transporter availability in Parkinson’s disease patients with or without depression
✍ Scribed by Swen Hesse; Philipp M. Meyer; Karl Strecker; Henryk Barthel; Florian Wegner; Christian Oehlwein; Ioannis Ugo Isaias; Johannes Schwarz; Osama Sabri
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 324 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6997
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