Minocycline, a microglial inhibitor, diminishes terminal patients' delirium?

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 314-315

  Hayakawa, Kohei ^a,b   Kato, Takahiro A ^a,c   Kohjiro, Masaomi ^b   Monji, Akira ^d   Kanba, Shigenobu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU KOSEI NENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MINOCYCLINE; OXYCODONE;

AGED; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BONE METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; DELIRIUM; DISORIENTATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DSM-IV-TR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INSOMNIA; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; MEMORIAL DELIRIUM ASSESSMENT SCALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RECURRENT ASPIRATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN METASTASIS; SPEECH DISORDER; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DELIRIUM; HUMANS; MALE; MICROGLIA; MINOCYCLINE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84898661814     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2013.11.003     Document Type: Letter

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