The small heat-shock proteins: Cellular functions and mutations causing neurodegeneration

Folding for the synapse

Volumn 9781441970619, Issue , 2011, Pages 49-77

  D'Ydewalle, C ^b   Krishnan, J ^b   Timmerman, V ^b   Van Den Bosch, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7061-9_4     Document Type: Chapter

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