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“The ratio … plasma of Trp to the sum of the other large neutral amino … (LNAA) was significantly inversely correlated with improvement on TCA , and patients with ratio Trp/LNAA below the mean improved significantly more than patients with a higher ratio but with comparable serum steady-state drug levels.”
European Neuropsychopharmacology • 1990 | View Paper
“Other studies have shown that the prolactin response to tryptophan is also enhanced after long-term tricyclic antidepressant treatment in depressed patients and after short- and long-term lithium treatment in healthy subjects.”
Archives of general psychiatry • 1989 | View Paper
“Other combinations with tricyclics have been reported less frequently: ECT, neuroleptics, reserpine, carbamazepine, 5 HTP, tryptophan , amphetamines, oestrogens, sleep deprivations.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)”
“The combination of monoamine oxidase inhibitors and tryptophan (Coppen et al., 1963; 1967), and tricyclic antidepressants e.g., chlorimipramine and tryptophan (Walinder et al., 1975), may increase 5-HT concentrations at receptor sites and therefore be more effective as an antidepressant than tryptophan alone.”