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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 134289, 11 pages
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Review Article

Role of Vitamin D in Parkinson’s Disease

Khanh Lương and Lan Nguyễn

Vietnamese American Medical Research Foundation, Westminster, CA 92683, USA

Received 18 October 2011; Accepted 29 November 2011

Academic Editors: M.-C. Chartier-Harlin, S. Lorenzl, and G. Meco

Copyright © 2012 Khanh Lương and Lan Nguyễn. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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