The art of matching brain tissue from patients and controls for postmortem research

Handbook of Clinical Neurology - Tập 150 - Trang 197-217 - 2018
Ai-Min Bao1, Dick F. Swaab1,2
1Department of Neurobiology, Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of Ministry of Health of China, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
2Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, and Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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