Cholinesterases: roles in the brain during health and disease.

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Published in Curr Alzheimer Res on July 01, 2005

Authors

Clive G Ballard1, Nigel H Greig, Angela L Guillozet-Bongaarts, Albert Enz, Sultan Darvesh

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Wolfson Centre for Age-related Diseases, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus, King's College, London, SE1 1UL, UK. clive.ballard@kcl.ac.uk

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