Implication of cysteine proteases calpain, cathepsin and caspase in ischemic neuronal death of primates

Progress in Neurobiology - Tập 62 - Trang 273-295 - 2000
Tetsumori Yamashima1
1Department of Neurosurgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan

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