Dexamethasone suppression test identifies a subset of elderly depressed patients with reduced platelet serotonin transport and resistance to imipramine inhibition of transport

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-25

  Slotkin, T A ^a   Hays, J C ^a   Nemeroff, C B ^b   Carroll, B J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Depression; Imipramine; Platelet serotonin transporter function in depression; Tricyclic antidepressants

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DESIPRAMINE; DEXAMETHASONE; IMIPRAMINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE; THROMBOCYTE MEMBRANE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD PLATELETS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMIPRAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN;

EID: 0031416641     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1997)6:1<19::AID-DA3>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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