3-Nitropropionic acid neurotoxicity: Visualization by silver staining and implications for use as an animal model of Huntington's disease

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 212-229

  Miller, Paul J ^a,b   Zaborszky, Laszlo ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT;

EID: 0031194912     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6522     Document Type: Article

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