Current state of knowledge about the mechanisms of alcohol tolerance

Addiction Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-141

  Kalant, Harold ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0001746831     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1355621961000124756     Document Type: Review

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