Is serum copper a 'trait marker' of unipolar depression? A preliminary clinical study

Polish Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 535-538

  Schlegel Zawadzka, Małgorzata ^a   Ziȩba, Andrzej ^a   Dudek, Dominika ^a   Zak Knapik, Joanna ^a   Nowak, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antidepressant treatment; Human depression; Serum copper

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CLOMIPRAMINE; IMIPRAMINE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MARKER; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COPPER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0342980254     PISSN: 12306002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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