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Metabolism of Tritium Labelled Dopamine in Schizophrenic Patients

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THE metabolism of dopamine has been of interest in research on schizophrenia since Friedhoff and Van Winkle1 announced that they had found 3,4-dimethoxyphenyl-ethylamine (DMPEA) in the urine of schizophrenic patients but not in the urine of normal persons.

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FAURBYE, A., PIND, K. Metabolism of Tritium Labelled Dopamine in Schizophrenic Patients. Nature 215, 1387–1388 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151387a0

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