Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 257-262 , July 2010

What role does the blood brain barrier play in acute mountain sickness?

  • Alex Baneke

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Received 24 December 2009 ,Revised 25 April 2010 ,Accepted 27 April 2010.

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PII: S1477-8939(10)00044-X

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.04.006

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 257-262 , July 2010

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