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The Tissue Plasminogen Activator/Plasmin System May Act Through Cleavage of Pro-BDNF to Increase Risk of Substance Abuse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Cheng-Dien Hsu  and
Shih-Jen Tsai
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , June 2010 , pp. 350
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