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Platelet and serum calcium and magnesium concentration in suicidal and non-suicidal schizophrenic patients.
Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences - 1 Apr 2013
Ruljancic Nedjeljka, Mihanovic Mate, Cepelak Ivana, Bakliza Ana
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AIM: The main processes modulated by Ca and involved in the cause of schizophrenia are alteration in the dopamine and glutamate neurotransmitter system. Intracellular effects of Mg-ions are opposite to Ca-ions in competition at K-ion channels, in Na/K-ATP-ase activity, cAMP/cGMP concentration and Ca-ion currents in pre- and postsynaptic membranes. We conducted this research due to the incongruent results on Ca...
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