hyposerotonemia

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English

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Etymology

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From hypo- +‎ serotonemia.

Noun

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hyposerotonemia (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) A reduced level of serotonin in the blood
    • 2016 February 24, “Constitutively Elevated Blood Serotonin Is Associated with Bone Loss and Type 2 Diabetes in Rats”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Bidirectional genetic selection of rats toward extreme activities of platelet 5HTT through successive generations, resulted in divergence into two discrete sublines with lifelong hyper- or hyposerotonemia as well as constitutional hyper- or hypoactivity of the serotonergic system in general [18 ].
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