Plasma neopterin in major depression: Relationship to basal and stimulated pituitary-adrenal cortical axis function

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-29

  O'Toole, Susan M ^a,b   Chiappelli, Francesco ^c   Rubin, Robert T ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Cell mediated immunity; Cortisol; CRH

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN[1-39]; CREATININE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HYDROCORTISONE; NEOPTERIN; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CREATININE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPTERIN; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032474507     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(98)00019-5     Document Type: Article

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