Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: UMLS:C0011570 (depression)
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Bulimia nervosa has been recently identified. DSM III-R gives more restrictive criteria for the trouble than DSM III. One may doubt it allows to better understand the probable psychopathological heterogeneity of this eating disorder. Biological indexes up to now only led to partial results. Their interpretation is made more difficult because of the small size of the samples of patients, studied in conditions which are often ill-defined. The biological parameters which are investigated are similar to those studied in depression: monoamines, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis, hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, Growth Hormone, prolactin , melatonin, beta-endorphin, EEG mapping. Antidepressants and anticonvulsants remain the most often mentioned drugs. Tryptophane, lithium, opiate antagonists, amphetamines, serotoninergic drugs are currently being studied.
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PMID:[Bulimic behaviors. Clinical, biochemical, pharmacologic data]. 266 2

Positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) allow for the in vivo visualisation and measurement of, e.g. the serotonergic system in the brain of depressed patients. Currently, the available ligands permit the investigation of 5-HT2A and 5-HT1A receptors, the serotonin transporter and serotonin synthesis. 5-HT2A receptors have most extensively been investigated and increases, decreases or no differences in ligand binding have been found. Previous treatment and suicidality could be major confounding variables. Tricyclics seem to decrease ligand binding, while SSRIs in most studies increase ligand binding. A few studies have looked at the 5-HT1A receptor and demonstrated decreases in binding. The one study which looked at the effect of an SSRI treatment did not find any effect. The serotonin transporter availability seems to be reduced in depression. Tryptophane depletion studies have demonstrated effects on brain metabolism in serotonin related regions and on 5-HT2A receptors. Finally, serotonin synthesis studies have shown interesting differences between males and females.
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PMID:Imaging the serotonergic system in depression. 1182 43