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    Akhlaq A. Farooqui

  2. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Wei-Yi Ong

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Farooqui, A.A., Ong, WY., Horrocks, L.A. (2008). Glutamate and Aspartate in Brain. In: Neurochemical Aspects of Excitotoxicity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73023-3_1

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