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ISRN Pathology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 930729, 17 pages
doi:10.5402/2011/930729
Review Article
Glycogen as a Putative Target for Diagnosis and Therapy in Brain Pathologies
Neurobioloy Laboratory, University of Orléans, Chartres Street, 45067 Orléans Cedex 2, France
Received 20 May 2011; Accepted 19 June 2011
Academic Editors: R. Pluta and F. J. Rodriguez
Copyright © 2011 Jean-François Cloix and Tobias Hévor. 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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