Dancing the delta shuffle: neurosteroids regulate GABAA receptor expression

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Andre Lagrange. Epilepsy Curr. 2006 Jan-Feb.

. 2006 Jan-Feb;6(1):14-7.

doi: 10.1111/j.1535-7511.2005.00081.x.

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