Alcohol
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 129-135 , February 2004

Effects of ethanol on cultured embryonic neurons from the cerebral cortex of the rat

Received 21 July 2003 ,Revised 18 December 2003 ,Accepted 24 December 2003.

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