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Activation of a remote (1-year old) emotional memory interferes with the retrieval of a newly formed hippocampus-dependent memory in rats

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Pages 36-52 | Received 16 Oct 2008, Accepted 26 Feb 2009, Published online: 27 Jan 2010

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