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Carine Vandervorst
Publications - 10
Citations - 670
Carine Vandervorst is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dexamethasone suppression test & Adrenocorticotropic hormone. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 10 publications receiving 631 citations.
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Immune Disturbances during Major Depression: Upregulated Expression of Interleukin-2 Receptors
TL;DR: Patients with major depression had a higher number and percentage of CD25+ cells, higher concentrations of serum circulating sIL-2Rs, higher supernatant sIL -2Rs after stimulation with PHA, and aHigher number of CD4+ cells were significantly and positively related to the number of cells expressing the CD 25+ antigen.
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Disturbances in acute phase plasma proteins during melancholia: additional evidence for the presence of an inflammatory process during that illness.
Michael Maes,Simon Scharpé,Eugene Bosmans,Maurits Vandewoude,Eduard Suy,W. Uyttenbroeck,Walter Cooreman,Carine Vandervorst,Jef Raus +8 more
TL;DR: These findings may support the hypothesis that depression is accompanied by an inflammatory response, as Severity of depression was significantly related to Hp and alpha 1S and to alpha 2M and Tf values.
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Lack of association between estrogen receptor genotypes and bone mineral density, fracture history, or muscle strength in elderly women.
Caroline Vandevyver,Johan Vanhoof,K Declerck,Piet Stinissen,Carine Vandervorst,Luc Michiels,Jean-Jacques Cassiman,Steven Boonen,Jef Raus,Piet Geusens +9 more
TL;DR: In elderly Caucasian women the PvuII ESR polymorphism is not associated with osteoporosis, fracture history, nor muscle strength and does not influence the association of bone density and muscle strength with polymorphism of the VDR.
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Psychomotor retardation, anorexia, weight loss, sleep disturbances, and loss of energy: Psychopathological correlates of hyperhaptoglobinemia during major depression
Michael Maes,Herbert Y. Meltzer,Simon Scharpé,Wim Cooreman,W. Uyttenbroeck,Eduard Suy,Carine Vandervorst,Joseph R. Calabrese,Jef Raus,Paul Cosyns +9 more
TL;DR: The authors studied the Hp levels in relation to depressive items of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III (SCID) and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) in 90 depressed subjects to investigate the psychopathological correlates of increased plasma concentrations of haptoglobin (Hp) in major depression.
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Decreased serum dipeptidyl peptidase IV activity in major depression.
Marie-Berthe Maes,I. De Meester,G. Vanhoof,Simon Scharpé,E. Bosmans,Carine Vandervorst,Robert Verkerk,B. Minner,Eduard Suy,Jef Raus +9 more
TL;DR: There was a significant negative correlation between serum DPP IV activity and the severity of illness, however, it was unable to detect any significant relationships between DPPIV on the one hand, and mitogen-induced blast transformation, soluble IL-2 receptor accumulation in PHA culture supernatant, total number of leukocytes and lymphocyte, T lymphocytes, CD4+ and CD25+ cells, on the other.