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Stress
The International Journal on the Biology of Stress
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Original Article

Medial prefrontal cortical activation modulates the impact of controllable and uncontrollable stressor exposure on a social exploration test of anxiety in the rat

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Pages 445-450 | Received 28 Jul 2008, Accepted 27 Sep 2008, Published online: 23 Nov 2009

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