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Pathophysiology and Treatment of Canavan Disease

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This study was supported by Shriners Hospitals Grant 439043; NIH 1R21NS096004-01; and the Dana Foundation.

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    David Pleasure, Fuzheng Guo, Olga Chechneva, Peter Bannerman, Travis Burns, Yan Wang & Vanessa Hull

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA

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Pleasure, D., Guo, F., Chechneva, O. et al. Pathophysiology and Treatment of Canavan Disease. Neurochem Res 45, 561–565 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11064-018-2693-6

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