Alcohol
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 181-185 , June 2000

Alcohol treatment during lactation produces an advance in the onset of puberty in female rats

Received 21 July 1999 ,Revised 15 February 2000 ,Accepted 18 February 2000.

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