Neurotrophin levels in postmortem brains of suicide victims and the effects of antemortem diagnosis and psychotropic drugs

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 29-37

  Karege, Félicien ^a   Vaudan, Geneviève ^a   Schwald, Michèle ^a   Perroud, Nader ^a   La Harpe, Romano ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antidepressant drugs treatment; Major depression; Neurotrophins; Postmortem brain; Suicide

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; TOXICOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTROPHIN 3; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUICIDE;

EID: 18944406852     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2004.12.020     Document Type: Article

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