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Chaperoning the synapse--NMNAT protects Bruchpilot from crashing

Elsa Lauwers1, Patrik Verstreken

  • 1KU Leuven Department of Human Genetics and Leuven Research Institute for Neuroscience and Disease, VIB Center for the Biology of Disease, Leuven, Belgium.

EMBO Reports
|December 1, 2012
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