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ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2011

APRESS: apical regulatory super system, serotonin, and dopamine interaction.

Marty Hinz, Alvin Stein, Thomas Uncini

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Article in Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Parkinson's disease-associated melanin steal.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2014
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  8. 5-HTP efficacy and contraindications.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2012
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  10. The discrediting of the monoamine hypothesis.International journal of general medicine · 2012
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  11. Monoamine depletion by reuptake inhibitors.Drug, healthcare and patient safety · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marty HinzClinical Research, NeuroResearch Clinics, Inc, Cape Coral, FL, USA;
Alvin Stein
Thomas Uncini

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTHE MONOAMINES SEROTONIN AND DOPAMINE ARE KNOWN TO EXIST IN TWO SEPARATE STATES: the endogenous state and the competitive inhibition state. The presence of the competitive inhibition state has been known to science for many years, but from a functional standpoint it has been noted in the literature as being "meaningless."

methodsA large database of monoamine transporter response to amino acid precursor administration variations with clinical outcomes was accumulated. In the process, a new organic cation transporter (OCT) model has been published, and OCT functional status determination along with amino acid precursor manipulation methods have been invented and refined.

resultsMethodology was developed whereby manipulation of the OCT, in the competitive inhibition state, is carried out in a predictable manner. This, in turn, has disproved the long-held assertion that the monoamine competitive inhibition state is functionally meaningless.

conclusionThe most significant aspect of this paper is the documentation of newly recognized relationships between serotonin and dopamine. When transport of serotonin and dopamine are both in the competitive inhibition state, manipulation of the concentrations of one will lead to predictable changes in concentrations of the other. From a functional standpoint, processes regulated and controlled by changes to only serotonin can now be controlled by changes to dopamine, and vice versa, in a predictable manner.

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catecholaminecompetitive inhibition statemonoamine

Identifiers

PMID21857786
PMCPMC3157489

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