Enhanced fear responses in mice treated with anabolic androgenic steroids.

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Published in Neuroreport on April 22, 2009

Authors

Roberto Carlos Agis-Balboa1, Fabio Pibiri, Marianela Nelson, Graziano Pinna

Author Affiliations

1: The Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.

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