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Males from the following strains were surveyed with respect to their hexobarbitone sleeping time: A2G, C57BR, C3H, F/st, CBA, ICFW and Schneider. Males from the same strains had previously been surveyed with respect to the inhibitory effect of mescaline on their emotional defaecation. There is a strong interstrain correlation between the 2 measures. This correlation was unexpected on theoretical grounds and may have important pharmacogenetic implications.
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Lush, I.E. A relationship between hexobarbitone sleeping time and susceptibility to mescaline in mice from different strains. Psychopharmacologia 43, 259–260 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00429260
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00429260