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Research Article

Consequences of adolescent social isolation on behavior and synaptic plasticity in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus in male Wistar rats

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Pages 1152-1160 | Received 21 Feb 2023, Accepted 29 Jul 2023, Published online: 12 Sep 2023

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