Plasma amino acids in ecstasy users

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 348-349

  Stuerenburg, Hans Joerg ^a,b   Petersen, K ^a   Buhmann, C ^a   Rosenkranz, M ^a   Baeumer, T ^a   Thomasius, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Neurological Dept Median Clinic   (Germany)

Author keywords

3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine; Amino acids; Delirium; Ecstacy; MDMA; Plasma; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ANSERINE; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARNOSINE; CITRULLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; ILLICIT DRUG; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; ORNITHINE; PHENYLALANINE; PHOSPHOSERINE; SERINE; TAURINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOSIS; RECREATION; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0242721527     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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