Immune system dysregulation in first-onset postpartum psychosis

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1000-1007

  Bergink, Veerle ^a   Burgerhout, Karin M ^a   Weigelt, Karin ^a   Pop, Victor J ^b   De Wit, Harm ^a   Drexhage, Roos C ^a   Kushner, Steven A ^a   Drexhage, Hemmo A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; cytokines; gene expression; glucocorticoid receptor; postpartum psychosis; T cells

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRIC BEAD ARRAY; CYTOMETRY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOCYTE; MOOD DISORDER; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL PSYCHOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD14; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; LYMPHOCYTES; MONOCYTES; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876889754     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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