Density of guanine nucleotide-binding proteins in platelets of patients with major depression: Increased abundance of the Gα(i2) subunit and down- regulation by antidepressant drug treatment

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 704-712

  García Sevilla, Jesús A ^a,b   Walzer, Claude ^a   Busquets, Xavier ^b   Escribá, Pablo V ^b   Balant, Luc ^a   Guimón, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blood platelet; Cyclic antidepressant drugs; G proteins; Major depression

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; IMIPRAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THROMBOCYTE;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GI-GO; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMIPRAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0008549480     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00493-3     Document Type: Article

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