Author name: Romeo Mariano, M.D.

Glucocorticoids Protect Against the Delayed Behavioral and Cellular Effects of Acute Stress on the Amygdala. Biol Psychiatry. 2012 May 7; Authors: Rao RP, Anilkumar S, McEwen BS, Chattarji S Abstract BACKGROUND: A single episode of acute immobilization stress has previously been shown to trigger a delayed onset of anxiety-like behavior and spinogenesis in the basolateral …

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Hippocampal Angiogenesis and Progenitor Cell Proliferation Are Increased with Antidepressant Use in Major Depression.   Biol Psychiatry. 2012 May 30; Authors: Boldrini M, Hen R, Underwood MD, Rosoklija GB, Dwork AJ, Mann JJ, Arango V Abstract BACKGROUND: Adult neurogenesis is coupled to angiogenesis in neurogenic niches in the dentate gyrus (DG) and increased by antidepressants in rodents. …

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Estrogen levels are associated with extinction deficits in women with posttraumatic stress disorder. Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Jul 1;72(1):19-24. Epub 2012 Apr 12. Glover EM, Jovanovic T, Mercer KB, Kerley K, Bradley B, Ressler KJ, Norrholm SD. Abstract BACKGROUND:Women are twice as likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than men. As shown in our previous work, …

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Telomeres and Early-Life Stress: An Overview Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Jul 23;  Authors: Price LH, Kao HT, Burgers DE, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR Abstract The long-term sequelae of adverse early-life experiences have long been a focus in psychiatry, with a historic neurobiological emphasis on physiological systems that are demonstrably stress-responsive, such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and …

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Thyroid Hormone Enhances Nitric Oxide-Mediated Bacterial Clearance and Promotes Survival after Meningococcal Infection PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e41445. Epub 2012 Jul 23. Chen Y, Sjölinder M, Wang X, Altenbacher G, Hagner M, Berglund P, Gao Y, Lu T, Jonsson AB, Sjölinder H. Abstract Euthyroid sick syndrome characterized by reduced levels of thyroid hormones (THs) is observed in …

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Mirtazapine Inhibits Tumor Growth via Immune Response and Serotonergic System PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e38886. Epub 2012 Jul 13.Fang CK, Chen HW, Chiang IT, Chen CC, Liao JF, Su TP, Tung CY, Uchitomi Y, Hwang JJ. Abstract To study the tumor inhibition effect of mirtazapine, a drug for patients with depression, CT26/luc colon carcinoma-bearing animal model was …

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Dose-Dependent Effects of Endotoxin on Neurobehavioral Functions in Humans PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e28330. Epub 2011 Dec 2. Grigoleit JS, Kullmann JS, Wolf OT, Hammes F, Wegner A, Jablonowski S, Engler H, Gizewski E, Oberbeck R, Schedlowski M. Abstract Clinical and experimental evidence document that inflammation and increased peripheral cytokine levels are associated with depression-like symptoms and …

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Vitamin D3 supplementation (4000 IU/d for 1 y) eliminates differences in circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D between African American and white men.   Am J Clin Nutr. 2012 Aug;96(2):332-6 Authors: Garrett-Mayer E, Wagner CL, Hollis BW, Kindy MS, Gattoni-Celli S Abstract BACKGROUND: African Americans suffer disproportionately from diabetes and cardiovascular disease and are significantly more likely to …

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Association of vitamin B-6 status with inflammation, oxidative stress, and chronic inflammatory conditions: the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study.   Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Feb;91(2):337-42 Authors: Shen J, Lai CQ, Mattei J, Ordovas JM, Tucker KL BACKGROUND: Low vitamin B-6 status has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. The cardioprotective effects …

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Dietary intake of saturated fatty acids and mortality from cardiovascular disease in Japanese: the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study for Evaluation of Cancer Risk Study? Yamagishi K, Iso H, Yatsuya H, Tanabe N, Date C, Kikuchi S, Yamamoto A, Inaba Y, Tamakoshi A; for the JACC Study Group. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Aug 4.   …

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