ToxiCity of a β-amyloid peptide fragment to neurones with reduced APR expression

Alzheimer's Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 223-231

  Brown, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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