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Peripheral PDLIM5 expression in bipolar disorder and the effect of olanzapine administration.
BMC medical genetics - 2 Oct 2012
Zain Mohd Aizat, Jahan Suffee Nusrat, Reynolds Gavin P, Zainal Nor Zuraida, Kanagasundram Sharmilla, Mohamed Zahurin
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: One of the genes suggested to play an important role in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BPD) is PDLIM5, which encodes LIM domain protein. Our main objective was to examine the effect of olanzapine treatment on PDLIM5 mRNA expression in the peripheral blood leukocytes of BPD patients. METHODS: We measured the expression of PDLIM5 mRNA from 16 patients with BPD Type I after 0, 4, and 8 weeks of...
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