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Nutritional Neuroscience
An International Journal on Nutrition, Diet and Nervous System
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Homocysteine can aggravate depressive like behaviors in a middle cerebral artery occlusion/reperfusion rat model: a possible role for NMDARs-mediated synaptic alterations

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