Emerging synergisms between drugs and physiologically-patterned weak magnetic fields: Implications for neuropharmacology and the human population in the twenty-first century

Current Neuropharmacology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 278-288

  Whissell, P D ^a   Persinger, M A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Dopamine; Magnetic field; Nitric oxide; Opiates; Physiologically patterned; Serotonin; Synergism

Indexed keywords

BETA FUNALTREXAMINE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLONIDINE; DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DIAZEPAM; DOMPERIDONE; DOPAMINE; FLUMAZENIL; ICI 174 864; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; KETAMINE; LEVODOPA; MORPHINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; N,N DIALLYLTYROSYL 2 METHYLALANYL 2 METHYLALANYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCINE; NALOXAZINE; NALOXONE; NALTREXONE; NALTRINDOLE 5' ISOTHIOCYANATE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NORBINALTORPHIMINE; OPIATE; OPIATE AGONIST; OXOTREMORINE; PILOCARPINE; PRAZOSIN; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

EID: 37249035675     PISSN: 1570159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157015907782793603     Document Type: Review

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