Unpredictable chronic mild stress in mice

Experimental Animal Models in Neurobehavioral Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 79-112

  Surget, Alexandre ^a   Belzung, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

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