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Peripheral benzodiazepine receptors in the brain of cirrhosis patients with manifest hepatic encephalopathy

✍ Scribed by Peter Iversen; Dorthe Aagaard Hansen; Dirk Bender; Anders Rodell; Ole Lajord Munk; Paul Cumming; Susanne Keiding

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 218 KB
Volume: 33
Category: Article
ISSN: 0340-6997
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-005-0052-8

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