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Candidate Genes Expression Profile Associated with Antidepressants Response in the GENDEP Study: Differentiating between Baseline ‘Predictors' and Longitudinal ‘Targets'

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In this article, the leukocyte mRNA expression levels of genes belonging to glucocorticoid receptor (GR) function (FKBP-4, FKBP-5, and GR), inflammatory cytokines (interleukin (IL)-1a, IL-1b), IL-6 and IL-7), macrophage inhibiting factor (MIF), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-a), were tested before and after 8 weeks of treatment with escitalopram or nortriptyline, as part of the Genome-
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This article is published in Neuropsychopharmacology.The article was published on 2013-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 342 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Proinflammatory cytokine.

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Genetic variations in the p11/tPA/BDNF pathway are associated with post stroke depression

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that the TrkB gene, BDNF and TrkB haplotypes, and gene-gene interactions between p11, tPA and BDNF are all associated with PSD, which suggests that genetic variations in the p11/tPA/BDNF pathway may play a central role in regulating the underlying mechanism of PSD.
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The BDNF Val(66)Met polymorphism is associated with escitalopram response in depressed patients.

TL;DR: A significant association between the BDNF valine to methionine substitution (Val66Met) polymorphism and the treatment response to escitalopram in a Caucasian population of severely depressed inpatients is highlighted.
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Behavioural and neurobiological consequences of macrophage migration inhibitory factor gene deletion in mice

TL;DR: The findings support that MIF is involved in the generation of depressive-like symptoms, potentially by the effects of IFN-γ on dopamine metabolism and further suggests a sex-specific regulation of the involved mechanisms.
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Molecular serum signature of treatment resistant depression

TL;DR: The findings suggest that proteins, which are involved in immune and complement activation, may represent potential biomarkers that could be used by clinicians to identify high-risk patients.
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Aiding and Abetting Anhedonia: Impact of Inflammation on the Brain and Pharmacological Implications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of inflammatory stimuli to humans and laboratory animals and chronic endogenous inflammatory states lead to motivational deficits and ultimately anhedonia, a core and disabling symptom of depression present in multiple other psychiatric disorders.
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An inventory for measuring depression

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A new depression scale designed to be sensitive to change.

TL;DR: The construction of a depression rating scale designed to be particularly sensitive to treatment effects is described, and its capacity to differentiate between responders and non-responders to antidepressant treatment was better than the HRS, indicating greater sensitivity to change.
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Development of a Rating Scale for Primary Depressive Illness

TL;DR: This is an account of further work on a rating scale for depressive states, including a detailed discussion on the general problems of comparing successive samples from a ‘population’, the meaning of factor scores, and the other results obtained.
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A Meta-Analysis of Cytokines in Major Depression

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of studies measuring cytokine concentration in patients with major depression reports significantly higher concentrations of the proinflammatory cytokines TNF-alpha and IL-6 in depressed subjects compared with control subjects, strengthening evidence that depression is accompanied by activation of the IRS.
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The HPA axis in major depression: classical theories and new developments

TL;DR: It is shown that hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is one of the most consistent biological findings in major depression psychiatry, but the mechanisms underlying this abnormality are still unclear.
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