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Platelet serotonin measures in primary dysthymia
A V Ravindran1, J Chudzik, R J Bialik
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ont., Canada.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|September 1, 1994
Abstract:
Serotonergic function in 22 patients with primary dysthymia and 22 normal volunteers was evaluated by measuring [3H]serotonin uptake and [3H]paroxetine binding in platelets. A significantly lower maximum rate of serotonin uptake was noted in the dysthymic patients than in the normal subjects, indicating a possible serotonergic dysfunction in dysthymia. However, the values for parameters of paroxetine binding were similar in the two groups.