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Schweighauser, M., Bacioglu, M., Fritschi, S.K. et al. Formaldehyde-fixed brain tissue from spontaneously ill α-synuclein transgenic mice induces fatal α-synucleinopathy in transgenic hosts. Acta Neuropathol 129, 157–159 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-014-1360-5
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