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Research into neurodegenerative disease: an entangled web of mice and men

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  1. Department of Neurology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, 2-6 Musashi-dai, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8526, Japan

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  2. Institute of Neuropathology, Münster University Hospital, Domagkstr. 19, 48149, Münster, Germany

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Uchihara, T., Paulus, W. Research into neurodegenerative disease: an entangled web of mice and men. Acta Neuropathol 115, 1–4 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-007-0319-1

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