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Shock from electric current

Known as: Electrical Shock, Electric shock, effects electric shock 
A brief, unintentional exposure to an electric current, which may result in local tissue damage due to thermal injury or in a cardiac dysrhythmia.
National Institutes of Health

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Electrical InjuriesElectrocution and nonfatal effects of electric current

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Traumatic injury

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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Synchronized Repolarization After Defibrillation Shocks: A Possible Component of the Defibrillation Process Demonstrated by Optical Recordings in Rabbit Heart
BackgroundIt is currently believed that defibrillation shocks act primarily by stimulating excitable myocardium to abolish wave… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Thermal injury kinetics in electrical trauma.
The distribution of electrical current and the resultant Joule heating in tissues of the human upper extremity for a worst-case… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Paroxysmal autonomie dysfunction, epileptogenic activity and sudden death
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Enhancement of learning and memory in mice by a benzodiazepine antagonist
Benzodiazepines, a class of drugs widely employed as anxiolytics and anticonvulsants, can induce impairments of learning and… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Benzodiazepine inhibition of the calcium-calmodulin protein kinase system in brain membrane.
Benzodiazepines inhibit Ca2+-calmodulin-stimulated membrane protein phosphorylation. The effects of the benzodiazepines on… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Effects of scopolamine, amphetamine and benzodiazepines on conditioned suppression.
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
The effects of early experience on the adrenocortical response to different magnitudes of stimulation.
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Fixed-interval schedules of electric shock presentation: extinction and recovery of performance under different shock intensities and fixed-interval durations.
In squirrel monkeys responding under a schedule in which responding postponed the delivery of electric shock, the presentation of… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Some physiological, biochemical, and behavioral consequences of neonatal hormone administration: cortisol and thyroxine.
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Further physiological correlates of ethnic differences in responses to shock.
The effects of subjects’ sets on autonomic functioning had previously been dem-onstrated when the sets were induced by explicit… 
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