Activation of the Locus Ceruleus Brain Noradrenergic System during Stress: Circuitry, Consequences, and Regulation

Advances in Pharmacology

Volumn 42, Issue C, 1997, Pages 781-784

  Valentino, Rita J ^a   Curtis, Andre L ^a   Page, Michelle E ^a   Pavcovich, Luis A ^a   Florin Lechner, Sandra M ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 0343663227     PISSN: 10543589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-3589(08)60863-7     Document Type: Article

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