A postmortem study of glycine and its potential precursors in chronic schizophrenics

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 239-245

  Kurumaji, Akeo ^a   Watanabe, Akiko ^a   Kumashiro, Shin ^a   Semba, Jun'Ichi ^b   Toru, Michio ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 DIMETHYLAMINOAZOBENZENE; GLYCINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SERINE; THREONINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030248056     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0197-0186(96)00013-7     Document Type: Article

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