Alcohol
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 141-148 , March 2010

Breast pumping and lactational state exert differential effects on ethanol pharmacokinetics

  • Julie A. Mennella

      Affiliations

    • Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-267-519-4880; fax: +1-215-898-2084.
    • ,
  • M. Yanina Pepino

      Affiliations

    • Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • Washington University, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, St Louis, MO 63110, USA

Received 3 September 2009 ,Revised 16 October 2009 ,Accepted 16 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2009.10.011

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