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WITHDRAWN: The potential role of Ask1 in caspase-6-related huntingtin cleavage and striatal vulnerability
Kyoung Joo Cho1, Hyun Woo Kim, So Yeong Cheon
1Department of Neurology and Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical Science, Yonsei, University, College of Medicine, Seoul, 120-752 Korea.
Neurobiology of Disease
|July 6, 2010
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