Alcohol
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 103-113 , February 2002

Ethanol consumption in the female Long–Evans rat: a modulatory role of estradiol

Received 16 April 2001 ,Revised 2 October 2001 ,Accepted 10 November 2001.

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