Orally administered atropine enhances motor cortex excitability: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study in human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 300, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 149-152

  Liepert, J ^a,b   Schardt, S ^a   Weiller, C ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti muscarinic; Atropine; Intracortical facilitation; Intracortical inhibition; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SEIZURE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS;

EID: 0035896462     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01572-5     Document Type: Article

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