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Blocking Effect of Tetrahydroaminacrin on a New Psychotomimetic Agent
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Blocking Effect of Tetrahydroaminacrin on a New Psychotomimetic Agent

  • SAMUEL GERSHON1 

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TETRAHYDROAMINACRIN, a cholinesterase inhibitor, has been found to be an effective antidote to induced ‘model psychosis’ as well as the central and peripheral effects of an acetylcholine inhibitor, JB 329, in eight cases.

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GERSHON, S. Blocking Effect of Tetrahydroaminacrin on a New Psychotomimetic Agent. Nature 186, 1072–1073 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1861072a0

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