Schizophrenia and the parvalbumin-containing class of cortical local circuit neurons

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 154, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1013-1015

  Woo, Tsung Ung ^a   Miller, Jed L ^a   Lewis, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; PARVALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0030918963     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.154.7.1013     Document Type: Article

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