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Case report| Volume 21, ISSUE 12, P1212-1216, October 1986

Vasopressin-neurophysin and bipolar depression

  • Jean-Jacques Legros
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    Address reprint requests to Dr. J.-J. Legros. Psychoneuroendocrinology Unit, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire ((B 23), B-4000 Liège-Sart Tilman. Belgium.
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    From the Psychoneuroendocrinology Unit and the Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Liège Medical School, Liège-Sart Tilman, Belgium
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  • Marc Ansseau
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    From the Psychoneuroendocrinology Unit and the Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Liège Medical School, Liège-Sart Tilman, Belgium
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