A comparison of the effects of acute tryptophan depletion and acute phenylalanine/tyrosine depletion in healthy women

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 467, Issue , 2000, Pages 67-71

  Leyton, M ^a   Young, S N ^a   Pihl, R O ^a   Etezadi, S ^a   Lauze, C ^a   Blier, P ^a   Baker, G B ^a   Benkelfat, C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; PHENYLALANINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANXIETY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; STRESS;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; CATECHOLAMINES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PHENYLALANINE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

EID: 0034468840     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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