Alcohol
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 133-140 , June 2000

Alcohol before puberty produces an advance in the onset of sexual behavior in male rats

Received 27 September 1999 ,Revised 18 January 2000 ,Accepted 24 January 2000.

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