Differences between males and females in rates of serotonin synthesis in human brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 5308-5313

  Nishizawa, S ^a,b   Benkelfat, C ^a   Young, S N ^a   Leyton, M ^a   Mzengeza, S ^a,b   De Montigny, C ^a   Blier, P ^a   Diksic, M ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

methyl L tryptophan; major depression; positron emission tomography imaging; tryptophan depletion

Indexed keywords

INDOLEAMINE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEROTONIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0030924948     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.10.5308     Document Type: Article

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