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Noradrenergic receptor sensitivity in obsessive compulsive disorder: II. Cortisol response to acute clonidine
F Brambilla1, L Bellodi, G Perna
1Dipartimento di Scienze Neuropsichiche, Istituto Scientifico Ospedale. H.S. Raffaele, Milano, Italy.
Psychiatry Research
|March 24, 1997
Abstract:
Sensitivity of pre-synaptic alpha-2- and post-synaptic alpha-1- and beta-adrenoceptors was investigated in 15 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and in 15 age- and sex-matched healthy controls, by measuring cortisol responses to saline administration and to inhibition by clonidine (clon), a noradrenergic receptor agonist. Basal values of cortisol and responses to administration of saline and of clon were the same in patients and controls.