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BioMed Research International
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 141396, 10 pages
Effects of Stress and MDMA on Hippocampal Gene Expression
1James Winkle College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati, 3225 Eden Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
2Department of Neurosciences, University of Toledo School of Medicine, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
Received 18 April 2013; Revised 18 September 2013; Accepted 10 October 2013; Published 9 January 2014
Academic Editor: Anton M. Jetten
Copyright © 2014 Georg F. Weber et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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