Major category: Biological Sciences Minor category: Neuroscience Manuscript No: 02-6383 Nigrostriatal a-synucleinopathy induced by recombinant AAV vector-mediated overexpression of human a-synuclein: A new primate model of Parkinson’s disease
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* Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Department of Physiological Sciences, Division of Neurobiology, Lund University, BMC A11, 221 84, Lund, Sweden † The Psychology Department, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, United Kingdom. § Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Powell Gene Therapy Center, University of Florida, PO Box 100244, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA ¶ Department of Neuroscience, U.F. Brain Institute and Powell Gene Therapy Center, University of Florida, PO Box 100244, Gainesville, Florida, 32610, USA
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Nigrostriatal -synucleinopathy induced by viral vector-mediated overexpression of human -synuclein: A new primate model of Parkinson’s disease
*Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Department of Physiological Sciences, Division of Neurobiology, Lund University, BMC A11, 221 84 Lund, Sweden; ‡Psychology Department, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom; and §Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, and ¶Powell Gene Thera...
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