Brain tissue banks in psychiatric and neurological research.
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Brain tissue banks in psychiatric and neurological research.
Introduction Properly organised brain banks have a relatively recent history with only a few more than a decade old.' Much recent progress in the understanding of the pathogenesis of both common and rare disorders of the nervous system has come about by the use of postmortem human brain tissue. This scientific progress has been based on the systematic collection and distribution by brain banks ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.50.4.355-c