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The International Journal on the Biology of Stress
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Chronic voluntary wheel running facilitates corticosterone response habituation to repeated audiogenic stress exposure in male rats

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Pages 425-437 | Received 05 Sep 2007, Accepted 15 Dec 2007, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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