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Zinc Sulfate Could be a Potential Agent for the Treatment of Huntington's Disease Through Activating Central TrkB Signaling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Chia-Liang Wu
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 56 - 57
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