Mescaline, a psychoactive alkaloid, affects both psychological and physiological systems, with its metabolism and neurological impacts studied historically. The abstract references a medical center and a neurology and psychiatry department, indicating collaborative research on mescaline's effects on the brain and body, though no specific findings, sample sizes, or populations are detailed.
Sodium succinate had a definite antidotal effect on mescaline-induced psychosis in all 12 subjects, though the effect varied greatly among individuals. The relief was transient and did not substantially shorten the total duration of mescaline's effects. The most plausible explanation is that succinate provides an alternative substrate for oxidation in brain tissues when mescaline has depressed the oxidation of other substrates like glucose, lactate, and pyruvate.
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