Mechanisms of hybrid oligomer formation in the pathogenesis of combined Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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Published in PLoS One on September 04, 2008

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Igor F Tsigelny1, Leslie Crews, Paula Desplats, Gideon M Shaked, Yuriy Sharikov, Hideya Mizuno, Brian Spencer, Edward Rockenstein, Margarita Trejo, Oleksandr Platoshyn, Jason X-J Yuan, Eliezer Masliah

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1: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.

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