Excitatory GABA as a mediator of steroid-induced brain sexual differentiation

Neuroplasticity, Development, and Steroid Hormone Action

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 319-341

  McCarthy, Margaret M ^a   Perrot Sinal, Tara S ^a   Auger, Anthony P ^a   Sickel, Micah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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