Article
A review on the acute phase response in major depression.
Reviews in the neurosciences - 1 Jan 2000
Maes M
Abstract excerpt
There is some evidence that major depression is characterized by systemic immune activation with involvement of phagocytic cells, T cell activation, B cell proliferation and increased autoantibody production. This paper reviews that major depression may be accompanied by higher concentrations of positive and lower concentrations of negative acute phase proteins (APPs). The most prominent abnormalities of APPs in...
Topics
- Acute-Phase Proteins
- Acute-Phase Reaction
- Depression
- Genotype
- Haptoglobins
- Humans
- Interleukins
- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
- Phenotype
