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The Human Platelet

A Diagnostic and Research Tool for the Study of Biogenic Amines in Psychiatric and Neurologic Disorders

Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1977;34(5):509-516.


Abstract



• Comparison of the properties of blood platelets and serotonergic synaptosomes suggests that the human platelet can serve as an appropriate model for the transport, metabolism, and release of serotonin (5-HT) by CNS serotonergic neurons. The study of blood 5-HT levels and platelet 5-HT pharmacodynamics in patients with a variety of psychiatric and neurologic disorders has generated interesting leads into possible abnormalities of CNS 5-HT neurons in these patients. This article reviews the experimental evidence, which uses the human platelet model to investigate neurotransmitter-related abnormalities in Down syndrome, mental retardation, infantile autism, hyperactivity syndromes (minimal brain dysfunction), schizophrenia, affective disorders, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Parkinson disease, Huntington chorea, and migraine headaches.



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From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.


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Accepted for publication Dec 15, 1976.

Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 950 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637 (Dr Stahl).



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