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Statins May Act Through Increasing Tissue Plasminogen Activator/Plasmin Activity to Lower Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Shih-Jen Tsai
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , May 2009 , pp. 234 - 235
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