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Differential effects of phenobarbital, pentobarbital and diphenylhydantoin on motor cortical and reticular thresholds in the rhesus monkey

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  1. Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    Roy Aston & Edward F. Domino

  2. Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

    Roy Aston

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Supported by grant R-14-59C from the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation, Inc.

A preliminary report of this study was presented before the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Meetings in Chicago (Aston and Domino 1960).

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Aston, R., Domino, E.F. Differential effects of phenobarbital, pentobarbital and diphenylhydantoin on motor cortical and reticular thresholds in the rhesus monkey. Psychopharmacologia 2, 304–317 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00404118

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