Platelet monoamine oxidase in alcoholism
โ Scribed by Nela Pivac; Dorotea Muck-Seler; Dragica Kozaric-Kovacic; Maja Mustapic; Korona Nenadic-Sviglin; Martina Dezeljin
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 76 KB
- Volume
- 182
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3158
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Platelet monoamine oxidase activity was determined in 52 unipolar depressive patients, 26 patients with bipolar affective disorder and 48 controls using phenylethylamine as substrate. Unipolar depressive patients of either sex and bipolar depressive women showed significantly higher platelet MAO act
Thirty-five alcoholic families have been studied to investigate the relationship between DNA markers at the monoamine oxidase (MAO) loci and 1) platelet activity levels and 2) alcoholism. A quantitative linkage analysis failed to reveal any evidence that the variation in activity levels cosegregates