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ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2019

Serum BICC1 levels are significantly different in various mood disorders.

Suzhen Chen, Haitang Jiang, Zhi Xu, Jingjing Zhao, Ming Wang, Yan Lu, Jianhua Li, Fei Sun, Yonggui Yuan

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Article in Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Suzhen ChenDepartment of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, PR China, yygylh2000@sina.com.
Haitang JiangDepartment of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, PR China, yygylh2000@sina.com.
Zhi XuDepartment of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, PR China, yygylh2000@sina.com.
Jingjing ZhaoDepartment of Psychiatry, Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, PR China.
Ming WangDepartment of Psychiatry, The Third People's Hospital of Changshu, Suzhou 215500, PR China.
Yan LuDepartment of Psychiatry, The Fourth People's Hospital of Zhangjiagang, Suzhou 215600, PR China.
Jianhua LiDepartment of Psychiatry, The Third People's Hospital of Huzhou, Huzhou 313000, PR China.
Fei SunDepartment of Psychiatry, The Second People's Hospital of Jingjiang, Taizhou 214500, PR China.
Yonggui YuanDepartment of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, PR China, yygylh2000@sina.com.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeMood disorders are recurrent chronic disorders with fluctuating mood states and energy, and misdiagnosis is common when based solely on clinical interviews because of overlapping symptoms. Because misdiagnosis may lead to inappropriate treatment and poor prognosis, finding an easily implemented objective tool for the discrimination of different mood disorders is very necessary and urgent. However, there has been no accepted objective tool until now. Recently, PATIENTS AND

methodsSerum BICC1 levels in drug-free patients with MDD (n=30), BM (n=30), and BD (n=13), and well-matched healthy controls (HC, n=30) were measured with ELISA kits. Pearson correlation analyses were used to analyze the correlations between serum BICC1 levels and clinical information. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to analyze the differential discriminative potential of BICC1 for different mood disorders.

resultsOne-way ANOVA indicated that serum BICC1 levels were significantly increased in all patient groups compared with the HC group and significantly different between each pair of patient groups. Correlation analyses found no relationship between serum BICC1 levels and any clinical variables in any study group. ROC curve analysis showed that serum BICC1 could discriminate among all three mood disorders from each other accurately with fair-to-excellent discriminatory capacity (area under the ROC curve from 0.787 to 1.0).

conclusionThe findings of this preliminary study indicated significant differences in serum BICC1 levels in patients with different mood disorders. This study provides preliminary evidence that serum BICC1 may be regarded as a promising, objective, easy-to-use tool for diagnosing different mood disorders.

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BICC1biomarkerdiagnosisdifferential diagnosismood disorderobjective tool

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