NMDA receptors in the rat VTA: a critical site for social stress to intensify cocaine taking.

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Published in Psychopharmacology (Berl) on December 19, 2007

Authors

Herbert E Covington1, Thomas F Tropea, Anjali M Rajadhyaksha, Barry E Kosofsky, Klaus A Miczek

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1: Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford and Boston, MA, USA.

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