A Light Touch on Sociability.

Domínguez-Iturza N; Bagni C

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2019.07.022

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A Light Touch on Sociability.

Domínguez-Iturza N Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bagni C Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: claudia.bagni@unil.ch.

2019-08-10

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Cell. - 2019

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