Treatment-resistant depression and aquaporin-4 autoantibodies: Is there a link?

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e1-e2

  Iorio, Raffaele ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4 ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; ESCITALOPRAM; MIRTAZAPINE; PAROXETINE; STEROID; VENLAFAXINE; ANTIBODY; AQP4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; AQUAPORIN 4;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DSM-IV; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LIMB PAIN; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINALLY EXTENSIVE TRANSVERSE MYELITIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MYELITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION; URINE RETENTION; WEAKNESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, TREATMENT-RESISTANT; IMMUNOLOGY; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES; AQUAPORIN 4; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, TREATMENT-RESISTANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA;

EID: 84942989092     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.09.011     Document Type: Letter

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