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Transmitter Biochemistry of Huntington’s Disease

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A great deal of new data on the neurochemistry of human brain has resulted from the availability of post-mortem brain tissues from patients dying from Huntington’s disease (H.D.).

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  1. Ralph Lowell Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Edward D. Bird & Linda J. Kraus

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  1. Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Vienna, Austria

    Peter Riederer

  2. National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland

    Earl Usdin

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Bird, E.D., Kraus, L.J. (1981). Transmitter Biochemistry of Huntington’s Disease. In: Riederer, P., Usdin, E. (eds) Transmitter Biochemistry of Human Brain Tissue. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05932-4_15

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