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Administration of nicotine to adolescent rats evokes regionally selective upregulation of CNS α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

✍ Scribed by Theodore A. Slotkin; Mandy M. Cousins; Frederic J. Seidler

Book ID
113500186
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
155 KB
Volume
1030
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-8993

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