Is D-cycloserine a prodrug for D-serine in the brain?

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Horio, Mao ^a   Mori, Hisashi ^b   Hashimoto, Kenji ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SERINE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LETTER; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYCLOSERINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; SERINE;

EID: 84878418900     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.07.013     Document Type: Letter

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