G protein-coupled cyclic AMP signaling in postmortem brain of subjects with mood disorders: Effects of diagnosis, suicide, and treatment at the time of death

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1121-1126

  Dowlatshahi, Dar ^a   MacQueen, Glenda M ^a   Wang, Jun Feng ^a   Reiach, James S ^a   Young, L Trevor ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; CREB; G protein; Major depressive disorder; Mood stabilizers; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUICIDE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FORSKOLIN; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GI-GO; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUICIDE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032840527     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.0731121.x     Document Type: Article

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