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The International Journal on the Biology of Stress
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Research article

Immobilization stress elevates intron-containing transcripts for tyrosine hydroxylase in rat superior cervical ganglia indicating transcriptional activation

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Pages 544-548 | Received 23 Jul 2008, Accepted 12 Dec 2008, Published online: 27 Jan 2010

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