Plasma pterins and folate in late life depression: The Rotterdam Study

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 145, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 199-206

  Tiemeier, Henning ^a   Fekkes, Durk ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   van Tuijl, H Ruud ^a   Kiliaan, Amanda J ^b   Breteler, Monique M B ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depression; Elderly; Folates; Monoamine synthesis; Population based; Pterins

Indexed keywords

BIOPTERIN; FOLIC ACID; MONOAMINE; NEOPTERIN; PTERIN; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MONOAMINE METABOLISM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPTERIN; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33750939066     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.07.035     Document Type: Article

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