Sex difference in 5HT2 receptor in the living human brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 25-28

  Biver, Françoise ^a   Lotstra, Françoise ^a   Monclus, Michel ^a   Wikler, David ^a   Damhaut, Philippe ^a   Mendlewicz, Julien ^a   Goldman, Serge ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

5HT2 receptor; Frontal cortex; Gender; Normal subject; PET; 18F altanserin

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN 2 RECEPTOR; ALTANSERIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE; KETANSERIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEX DIFFERENCE; BRAIN LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; KETANSERIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029670979     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12307-7     Document Type: Article

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