Manganese Content in Hair of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Manganese Deficiency and Susceptibility Towards Parkinson’s Disease

January 1990 in “ Advances in behavioral biology ”

Biao Chen, Zhou-Lin Liu, Liang Xiuling … Xi-Bang Pan

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