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The structure of amyloid filaments in Alzheimer's disease and the unconventional virus infections of the nervous system1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Colin L. Masters  and
Konrad Beyreuther
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , November 1986 , pp. 735 - 737
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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