α-Synuclein pathology in the neostriatum in Parkinson’s disease
✍ Scribed by Fumiaki Mori; Kunikazu Tanji; Haixin Zhang; Akiyoshi Kakita; Hitoshi Takahashi; Koichi Wakabayashi
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 487 KB
- Volume
- 115
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6322
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