Alcohol
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 79-81 , June 2001

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and neurodegenerative disease

Received 5 September 2000 ,Revised 16 February 2001 ,Accepted 24 February 2001.

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Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 79-81 , June 2001

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