Genetic Selection and Differential Stress Responses: The Roman Lines/Strains of Rats

ETH, Institut fur Natztierwissenschaften, Schorenstrasse 16, CH-8603 Schwerzenbach, Switzerland Autonomous University of Barcelona, Medical Psychology Unit, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Psychobiology, E-15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain University of Cagliari, Department of Toxicology, Viale A. Diaz 182, I-09126 Cagliari, Italy University of Magdeburg, Anatomy Institute, Leipzigerstrasse 44, D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany IUPG, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, 100 avenue de Bel-Air, CH-1225 Chene-Bourg (GE), Switzerland NV Organon, RE 2211, P.O. Box 20, NL-5340 BH Oss, the Netherlands University of Oxford, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, GB-Oxford OX3 9DU, England University of Groningen, Department of Animal Physiology, Kerklaan 30, P.O. Box 14, NL-9750 AA Haren, the Netherlands University of Delaware, Departments of Psychology and Biology, Newark, Delaware 19716 USA

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