Influence of age on the parasympatholytic property of tricyclic antidepressants

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 199-207

  Lehofer, Michael ^a   Moser, Maximilian ^b   Hoehn Saric, Rudolf ^c   McLeod, Daniel ^c   Hildebrandt, Gunther ^d   Egner, Sigrun ^b   Steinbrenner, Birgit ^b   Liebmann, Peter ^b   Zapotoczky, Hans Georg ^b  

^a Hospital for Nervous Diseases   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Anticholinergic agents; Cardiac vagal tone; Major depression; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGING; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; TREATMENT PLANNING; VAGUS TONE;

ADULT; AGING; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0033593950     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(99)00005-0     Document Type: Article

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