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Lei Guo1, Yi-Xi Chen1, Yu-Ting Hu1

  • 1Department of Neurobiology, Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of Ministry of Health of China, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Mental Disorder's Management, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, P.R.China.

Psychoneuroendocrinology
|May 25, 2018
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Keywords:
EstradiolGonadectomyHypothalamusSex differenceStressTestosterone

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