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Schizophrenia and the serotonin-2A receptor promoter polymorphism.
Psychiatry research - 22 Feb 1999
Ohara K, Nagai M, Tani K, Tsukamoto T, Ohara K
Abstract excerpt
Serotonin-2A (5-HT2A) receptors have received much investigative attention in schizophrenia because (1) several studies have shown a decrease in the number of 5-HT2A receptors in the prefrontal cortex of postmortem brains of schizophrenic patients; (2) atypical antipsychotic drugs are antagonists for 5-HT2A receptors; and (3) a positive association between a T to C polymorphism at position 102 of the 5-HT2A...
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