Hippocampal neurons are damaged by caffeine-augmented electroshock seizures

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 642-647

  Enns, Murray ^a   Peeling, James ^b   Sutherland, Garnette R ^c  

^a PsycHealth Centre   (Canada)

^b HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

caffeine; electroconvulsions; eletrically induced seizures; hippocampus; neuronal damage

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

EID: 0030273638     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00450-5     Document Type: Article

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