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Elevated Phenylethylamine Excretion in Women

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Phenylethylamine (PEA) is an endogenously produced trace amine with chemical similarities to amphetamine. It has been of particular interest to psychiatric researchers as a putative, endogenously produced mood-altering and/or psychotomimetic agent (Fischer and Heller, 1972; Wyatt, 1978).

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  1. National Institute of Mental Health Clinical Center, 10-3N220, 20205, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Lynn E. DeLisi M.D., Dennis L. Murphy M.D., Jean Hamilton M.D., Lynn R. Goldin Ph.D., Farouk Karoum Ph.D. & Richard J. Wyatt M.D.

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  1. Psychiatric Research Division, Saskatchewan Health, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

    A. A. Boulton

  2. Research Department, CIBA-GEIGY AG, Basel, Switzerland

    L. Maitre

  3. Human Pharmacology Institute, CIBA-GEIGY GmbH, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    P. R. Bieck

  4. Ludwig-ßoltzmann Institut für klinische Neurobiologie, Krankenhaus Wien-Lainz, Wien, Austria

    P. Riederer

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DeLisi, L.E., Murphy, D.L., Hamilton, J., Goldin, L.R., Karoum, F., Wyatt, R.J. (1985). Elevated Phenylethylamine Excretion in Women. In: Boulton, A.A., Maitre, L., Bieck, P.R., Riederer, P. (eds) Neuropsychopharmacology of the Trace Amines. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5010-4_38

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