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Markku Linnoila, MD, PhD; Jerry Oliver; Bryon Adinoff, MD; William Z. Potter, MD, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1988;45(8):701-704.

Abstract
• We have previously reported high correlations between norepinephrine and its metabolite outputs in depressed patients. In this article, we expand this finding to healthy volunteers and alcoholic patients. Furthermore, we find similar high correlations between urinary outputs of dopamine, norepinephrine, and their major metabolites. The same is true, to a lesser degree, for epinephrine and metanephrine outputs. There are implications of these findings for psychobiological research on the monoamine systems.

Author Affiliations
From the Laboratory of Clinical Studies, DICBR, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Drs Linnoila and Adinoff); and Section on Clinical Pharmacology, Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health (Dr Potter and Mr Oliver), Bethesda, Md.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 12, 1988.

Reprint requests to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg 10, Room 3B19, Bethesda, MD 20892 (Dr Linnoila).

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