Morphometric evidence for neuronal and glial prefrontal cell pathology in major depression

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1085-1098

  Rajkowska, Grazyna ^a   Miguel Hidalgo, José J ^a   Wei, Jinrong ^a   Dilley, Ginny ^b   Pittman, Stephen D ^a   Meltzer, Herbert Y ^c   Overholser, James C ^b   Roth, Bryan L ^b   Stockmeier, Craig A ^b  

^a Dept Psychiat Hum Behav U   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe; Neuroanatomy; Neuroimaging; Neuropathology; Postmortem; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033135401     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00041-4     Document Type: Article

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