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Decreased mRNA expression of tight junction proteins in lumbar spinal cords of patients with ALS
1Department of Neurology, Methodist Neurological Institute, Suite ST-802, 6560 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Neurology
|May 6, 2009
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