Brain [3H]cAMP binding sites are unaltered in depressed suicides, but decreased by antidepressants

Brain Research

Volumn 758, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 223-228

  Lowther, Sandra ^a   Katona, Cornelius L E ^b   Crompton, M Rufus ^a   Horton, Roger W ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Antidepressant drugs; cAMP dependent protein kinase; Cerebral cortex; Depression; Hippocampus; Post mortem brain tissue; Suicide; 3H cAMP binding

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CLOMIPRAMINE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIAZEPAM; DOSULEPIN; FLUPENTIXOL; HALOPERIDOL; IMIPRAMINE; LITHIUM; LOFEPRAMINE; MIANSERIN; NITRAZEPAM; PARACETAMOL; PROCYCLIDINE; TEMAZEPAM; THIORIDAZINE; TRANYLCYPROMINE; TRIFLUOPERAZINE; TRIMIPRAMINE; TRITIUM; CYCLIC AMP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DRUG BINDING SITE; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BINDING SITE; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; RADIOASSAY;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; CYCLIC AMP; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; SUICIDE; TRITIUM;

EID: 0030610938     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00232-1     Document Type: Article

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