Relationship between interleukin-6 gene polymorphism and hippocampal volume in antipsychotic-naïve schizophrenia: Evidence for differential susceptibility?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Kalmady, Sunil Vasu ^a   Venkatasubramanian, Ganesan ^a   Shivakumar, Venkataram ^a   Gautham, S ^a   Subramaniam, Aditi ^a   Jose, Dania Alphonse ^a   Maitra, Arindam ^b   Ravi, Vasanthapuram ^a   Gangadhar, Bangalore N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL GENOMICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IL 6 GENE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84900386452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096021     Document Type: Article

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