Elevated levels of erythropoietin in cerebrospinal fluid of depressed patients

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 315, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 199-201

  Nakamura, Tsukasa ^a   Ebihara, Isao ^b   Shimada, Noriaki ^b   Koide, Hikaru ^b  

^a Junshin Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Blood brain barrier; Erythropoietin; Hypoxia; Liquor

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPRAMINE; NORTRIPTYLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0031893378     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-199803000-00010     Document Type: Article

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