Exaggerated platelet reactivity to physiological agonists in war veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 161-172

  Vidović, Anelko ^a   Grubišić Ilić, Mirjana ^a   Kozarić Kovačić, Dragica ^a   Gotovac, Katja ^b   Rakoš, Iva ^a   Markotić, Alemka ^c   Rabatić, Sabina ^b   Dekaris, Dragan ^b   Sabioncello, Ante ^b  

^a University of Zagreb School of Medicine   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (Croatia)

^c Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Activation, platelet; ADP; Aggregation, platelet; Epinephrine; Leukocyte; Stress disorders, posttraumatic

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADRENALIN; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; PADGEM PROTEIN; YOHIMBINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; VETERAN; WAR;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-2 RECEPTOR AGONISTS; ADULT; BLOOD PLATELET DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROATIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EPINEPHRINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET ACTIVATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; WAR; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 79551488228     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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