Alcohol
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 41-48 , January 2001

Injected muscimol in pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus alters ethanol self-administration

Received 11 May 2000 ,Revised 26 September 2000 ,Accepted 26 September 2000.

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