New insights into BDNF signaling: Relevance to major depression and antidepressant action

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1137-1140

  Kerman, Ilan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR 2; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; KETAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84868561247     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12081053     Document Type: Editorial

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