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Using Enzyme-based Biosensors to Measure Tonic and Phasic Glutamate in Alzheimer's Mouse Models
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Matrix metalloproteinase-9 in glutamate-dependent adult brain function and dysfunction
1Laboratory for Molecular Neurobiology, Nencki Institute, 02-093 Warsaw, Pasteura 3, Poland.
Cell Death and Differentiation
|April 14, 2007
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