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. 1983 Dec;2(8365-66):1457-9.
doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(83)90802-4.

Aetiology of Parkinson's disease

D B Calne, J W Langston

Aetiology of Parkinson's disease

D B Calne et al. Lancet. 1983 Dec.

Abstract

It is suggested here that in most cases of Parkinson's disease the cause may be an environmental factor, possibly toxic, superimposed on a background of slow, sustained neuronal loss due to advancing age.

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