Phytomedicine
Volume 16, Issue 1 , Pages 40-46 , January 2009

Preventive action of Ginkgo biloba in stress- and corticosterone-induced impairment of spatial memory in rats

Received 20 October 2006 ,Accepted 16 March 2007.

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Phytomedicine
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