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Brief report| Volume 29, ISSUE 7, P699-702, April 01, 1991

Reversed hemispheric asymmetry of imipramine binding in suicide victims

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(91)90143-A
Reversed hemispheric asymmetry of imipramine binding in suicide victims
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      Publication history

      Received in revised form: August 9, 1990
      Received: December 14, 1989

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(91)90143-A

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      © 1991 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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