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Brief report| Volume 22, ISSUE 7, P914-918, July 1987

Chronic inescapable footshock produces cholinergic system supersensitivity

  • Steven C. Dilsaver
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    Address reprint requests to Dr. S.C. Dilsaver, Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Research Institute, 205 Washtenaw Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1687.
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    Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Research Institute. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIU.S.A.
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  • Norman E. Alessi
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    Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Research Institute. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIU.S.A.
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