Abstract
Summary
An acute lethal effect from electroshock convulsions has been demonstrated to occur among mice of the DBA, CFW and C57 strains, and to a lesser extent the ICR strains. CF#1 mice were rarely susceptible. Death was ascribed to failure to resume breathing and appeared to be dependent upon occurrence of maximal seizure and independent of intensity of current employed to elicit the seizure. The mechanisms involved were not revealed, but attention was directed to the finding that strains susceptible to post-seizure electroshock death are identical to those which are susceptible to audiogenic seizures.
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