Reduced frontal cortex inositol levels in postmortem brain of suicide victims and patients with bipolar disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 154, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1148-1150

  Shimon, Hady ^b   Agam, Galila ^b   Belmaker, R H ^a   Hyde, Thomas M ^b   Kleinman, Joel E ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOSITOL; INOSITOL PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SECOND MESSENGER; SUICIDE;

EID: 0030877331     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.154.8.1148     Document Type: Article

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