Platelet α2-adrenoceptors, defined with agonist and antagonist ligands, in depressed patients, prior to and following treatment

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 99-106

  Theodorou, Andreas E ^a   Lawrence, Kevin M ^a   Healy, David ^b   Whitehouse, Andrew M ^b   White, William ^b   Wilton Cox, Helen ^b   Kerry, Sally M ^a   Horton, Roger W ^a   Paykel, Eugene S ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3H Yohimbine; antidepressant treatment; Depression; High and low affinity 2 adrenoceptors; Platelet 2 adrenoceptors; UK 14,304 displacement of 3H yohimbine binding

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; IMIPRAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BLOOD PLATELETS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; IMIPRAMINE; LOFEPRAMINE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUINOXALINES; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 0026050925     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0327(91)90021-J     Document Type: Article

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