More than just caffeine: psychopharmacology of methylxanthine interactions with plant-derived phytochemicals

@article{Schuster2019MoreTJ,
  title={More than just caffeine: psychopharmacology of methylxanthine interactions with plant-derived phytochemicals},
  author={Julius Philipp Schuster and Ellen Siobhan Mitchell},
  journal={Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology \& Biological Psychiatry},
  year={2019},
  volume={89},
  pages={263–274},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:52274913}
}
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