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Alpha-Synuclein RNA Expression is Increased in Major Depression

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العنوان: Alpha-Synuclein RNA Expression is Increased in Major Depression
المؤلفون: Andrea Rotter, Bernd Lenz, Ruben Pitsch, Tanja Richter-Schmidinger, Johannes Kornhuber, Cosima Rhein
المصدر: International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Volume 20; Issue 8; Pages: 2029
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: alpha-synuclein, SNCA, major depression, Hamilton Scale of Depression
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: Alpha-synuclein (SNCA) is a small membrane protein that plays an important role in neuro-psychiatric diseases. It is best known for its abnormal subcellular aggregation in Lewy bodies that serves as a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Due to the high comorbidity of PD with depression, we investigated the role of SNCA in patients suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD). SNCA mRNA expression levels were analyzed in peripheral blood cells of MDD patients and a healthy control group. SNCA mRNA expression was positively correlated with severity of depression as indicated by psychometric assessment. We found a significant increase in SNCA mRNA expression levels in severely depressed patients compared with controls. Thus, SNCA analysis could be a helpful target in the search for biomarkers of MDD.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20082029
DOI: 10.3390/ijms20082029
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20082029
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.6FCF6D1A
قاعدة البيانات: BASE