Serotonergic dysfunction in addiction: Effects of alcohol, cigarette smoking and heroin on platelet 5-HT content

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 177-185

  Schmidt, Lutz G ^a   Dufeu, Peter ^a   Heinz, Andreas ^a   Kuhn, Silke ^a   Rommelspacher, Hans ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Drug abuse; MAO; Nicotine; Serotonin; Thrombocytes

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DIAMORPHINE; OPIATE; SEROTONIN;

ADDICTION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; THROMBOCYTE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BLOOD PLATELETS; BRAIN; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ADMISSION; SEROTONIN; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0030683508     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(97)00102-9     Document Type: Article

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