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José Luis Pérez-López1, Rubén Contreras-López1, Josué O Ramírez-Jarquín1

  • 1Instituto de Fisiología Celular (IFC), Neuropatología Molecular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.

Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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PubMed

Keywords:
VTAco-releasedopamineglutamateprefrontal cortex

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