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Comment on the letter by Green, Gabrielsson, Marsden, and Fone, MDMA: on the translation from rodent to human dosing

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  1. Pharmacology Research Unit, Institut Municipal d’Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

    Rafael de la Torre

  2. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Rafael de la Torre

  3. Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Elena Puerta & Norberto Aguirre

  4. Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Navarra, Irunlarrea 1, Pamplona, 31008, Spain

    Norberto Aguirre

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de la Torre, R., Puerta, E. & Aguirre, N. Comment on the letter by Green, Gabrielsson, Marsden, and Fone, MDMA: on the translation from rodent to human dosing. Psychopharmacology 204, 379–380 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-008-1455-6

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