Receptor-mediated increase in rabies virus axonal transport
Shani Gluska1, Stefan Finke2, Eran Perlson1
1Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, and the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Neural Regeneration Research
|July 23, 2015
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