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The Effects of Atropine and Reserpine on Cortical Kindling in the Rat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Ronald Racine*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
W. M. Burnham
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Kenneth Livingston
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
*
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4J9.
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Abstract

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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1979

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