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Brief report| Volume 21, ISSUE 3, P322-324, March 1986

Superoxide dismutase activity in fibroblasts from patients with schizophrenia

  • Martin R. Cohen
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    Address reprint requests to Dr. Martin R. Cohen, Ensor Foundation Research Laboratory, William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute, P.O. Box 202, Columbia, SC 29202 USA.
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    From the Ensor Foundation Research Laboratory, William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute, and the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
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  • Voyta Sailer
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    From the Ensor Foundation Research Laboratory, William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute, and the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
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  • Bill McAmis
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    From the Ensor Foundation Research Laboratory, William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute, and the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
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  • Peter Jenkins
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    From the Ensor Foundation Research Laboratory, William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute, and the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
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