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Previous experiments indicated that the development of clonic convulsions could be retarded by intraperitoneal injections of brain homogenate supernatant from male Wistar rats which had previously convulsed via amygdaloid electrical stimulation when naive recipients were used. Two further experiments were conducted with recipients which had reached the convulsion stage. In each of these experiments there was no indication of a retardation or suppressive effect.
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Research reported in this paper was supported by the President’s NRC Fund (Grant 32) from York University and a grant from the Ontario Society for Crippled Children.
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Gaito, J. Lack of retardation with convulsed recipients in the kindling paradigm. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 183–184 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337161
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