Letter to the editor

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 214-215

  Larner, Andrew J ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 0031067030     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: 15546578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005072-199702000-00013     Document Type: Letter

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