Alcohol
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 127-132 , June 2000

Chronic alcohol exposure and lactation: Extended observations

  • Sarah H Heil

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Human Behavioral Pharmacology Lab, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, 38 Fletcher Place, Burlington, VT 05401-1419, USA. Tel.: 802-656-9617; fax: 802-656-9628
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  • Marappa G Subramanian

Received 25 October 1999 ,Revised 13 January 2000 ,Accepted 18 January 2000.

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