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Commentary to Merwin SJ, Obis T, Nunez Y, Re DB (2017) Organophosphate neurotoxicity to the voluntary motor system on the trail of environment-caused amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: the known, the misknown, and the unknown. Arch Toxicol [Epub ahead of print]. doi:10.1007/s00204-016-1926-1

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    Marcello Lotti

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Cliniche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via GB Grassi 74, 20157, Milan, Italy

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Lotti, M., Moretto, A. Commentary to Merwin SJ, Obis T, Nunez Y, Re DB (2017) Organophosphate neurotoxicity to the voluntary motor system on the trail of environment-caused amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: the known, the misknown, and the unknown. Arch Toxicol [Epub ahead of print]. doi:10.1007/s00204-016-1926-1. Arch Toxicol 91, 3189–3190 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-017-1992-z

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