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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 activity than controls. Women had higher activity than men. Neither age nor serum lithium level correlated with enzyme activity and there was no significant change in activity after the institution of lithium treatment.
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Reveley, M.A., Glover, V., Sandler, M. et al. Increased platelet monoamine oxidase activity in affective disorders. Psychopharmacology 73, 257–260 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00422413
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