Alcohol, Excitotoxicity and Adult Brain Damage: An Experimentally Unproven Chain-of-Events.

Front Mol Neurosci

Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago Maywood, IL, USA.

Published: February 2016

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