Hair cortisol level as a biomarker for altered hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal activity in female adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-69

  Luo, Hongrong ^a   Hu, Xun ^a   Liu, Xiang ^a   Ma, Xiaohong ^a   Guo, Wanjun ^a   Qiu, Changjian ^a   Wang, Yingcheng ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Xiaowei ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Hannum, Gregory ^b   Zhang, Kang ^b   Liu, Xiehe ^a   Li, Tao ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; biomarker; cortisol; earthquake; hair; posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTROIMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP HAIR; SCHOOL CHILD; STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHINA; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84862796523     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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