Alcohol
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 197-203 , November 2002

Morphologic and neurotoxic effects of ethanol vary with timing of exposure in vitro

Received 16 February 2002 ,Revised 5 June 2002 ,Accepted 29 July 2002.

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