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Effect of maternal separation and chronic stress on hippocampal-dependent memory in young adult rats: evidence for the match-mismatch hypothesis

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Pages 445-450 | Received 14 Dec 2013, Accepted 10 Jun 2014, Published online: 11 Aug 2014

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