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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Alfred Pletscher papers
source:
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Creator:
Pletscher, A. (Alfred)
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.1238
Physical Description:
.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1955-2004
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English and German.
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Gift of Alfred Pletscher to the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), June 2005; transfered to UCLA in 2008.
[Identification of item], Alfred Pletscher Papers (Collection 1238). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special
Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9978006083606533
Alfred Pletscher (1917- ) received his doctorate in Medicine in 1942 and Ph.D. in Chemsitry in 1948, both fro the University
of Zürich. He conducted research at F. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. (Basel, Switzerland and Nutley, New Jersey) and at the University
of Basel. In his curriculum vitae, he identifies his primary scientific activities as: biochemistry and pharmacology of monoamine
(MOA) transmitters in the central nervous system; effect of psychotropic drugs (reserpine, benzoquinolines, phenylethylamines,
MAO-inhibitors, etc.) on cerebral monoamines; relation between cerebral monoamines and behavioral effects of psychotropic
drugs; discovery and development of therapeutically useful drugs , i.e., Madopar (levodopa plus decarboxylase-inhiitors) and
Tetrabenazine; and blood platelets as models for monoaminergic neurons.
Documents related to Alfred Pletscher, including historical essays and reprints.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology