Symptoms of prenatal depression are associated with raised salivary alpha-amylase levels

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2015, Pages 163-172

  Braithwaite, Elizabeth C ^a,b   Ramchandani, Paul G ^b   Lane, Tracy A ^a   Murphy, Susannah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpha amylase; Prenatal depression; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DISEASE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DEPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VASOCONSTRICTION; ENZYMOLOGY; FETUS; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938239910     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.06.013     Document Type: Article

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