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Blood Platelets and Psychiatry

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Iain C. Campbell
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Blood platelets appear to have a somewhat schizoid existence. Haematologically they are intimately connected with the process of clot formation (for review, see Zucker, 1980) and, at least from a research standpoint, this aspect of their being is largely separate from their use as models of monoaminergic neurones (for reviews, see Maynert and Isaac, 1968; Abrams and Solomon, 1969; Lingjaerde, 1977; Stahl, 1977; Pletscher, 1978).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 138 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 78 - 80
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