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Original Article

Effect of acute alarm odor exposure and biological sex on generalized avoidance and glutamatergic signaling in the hippocampus of Wistar rats

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Pages 292-303 | Received 22 Dec 2017, Accepted 28 May 2018, Published online: 19 Jun 2018

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