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Brain Maturation Measured by Electroshock Seizures in Rats at High Altitude (12,470 ft.; 3,800 m)

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  1. LOUISE M. HEIM

    Present address: Department of Anatomy, New York Medical College, Fifth Avenue at 106 Street, New York

  2. LOUISE M. HEIM: Work done during the tenure of a National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellowship.

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  1. Department of Physiology, University of California, Berkeley

    LOUISE M. HEIM &  PAOLA S. TIMIRAS

  2. the White Mountain Research Station, Big Pine, California

    LOUISE M. HEIM

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HEIM, L., TIMIRAS, P. Brain Maturation Measured by Electroshock Seizures in Rats at High Altitude (12,470 ft.; 3,800 m). Nature 204, 1157–1159 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041157a0

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