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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019

Secretory Acid Sphingomyelinase in the Serum of Medicated Patients Predicts the Prospective Course of Depression.

Christiane Mühle, Claudia Johanna Wagner, Katharina Färber, Tanja Richter-Schmidinger, Erich Gulbins, Bernd Lenz, Johannes Kornhuber

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Acid Sphingomyelinase Is a Modulator of Contextual Fear.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  17. New Molecular Targets for Antidepressant Drugs.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Christiane MühleDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Schwabachanlage 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. christiane.muehle@uk-erlangen.de.
Claudia Johanna WagnerDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Schwabachanlage 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. claudia.wagner@uk-erlangen.de.
Katharina FärberDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Schwabachanlage 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. katharina.faerber@gmx.de.
Tanja Richter-SchmidingerDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Schwabachanlage 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. tanja.richter-schmidinger@uk-erlangen.de.
Erich GulbinsDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, D-45259 Essen, Germany. erich.gulbins@uni-due.de.
Bernd LenzDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Schwabachanlage 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. erich.gulbins@uni-due.de.
Johannes KornhuberDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Schwabachanlage 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. johannes.kornhuber@uk-erlangen.de.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEUniversity of Duisburg-Essen · DE

Funding

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 01EE1401CBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 01EE1401GDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft GU 335/29Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft KO 947/13
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a highly prevalent and devastating psychiatric illness with strong individual and societal burdens. However, biomarkers to improve the limited preventive and therapeutic approaches are scarce. Multilevel evidence suggests that the pathophysiological involvement of sphingolipids particularly increases the levels of ceramides and the ceramide hydrolyzing enzyme, acid sphingomyelinase. The activity of secretory acid sphingomyelinase (S-ASM) and routine blood parameters were determined in the serum of patients with current (unmedicated

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acid sphingomyelinaseanxietyceramidecourse of depressionlipidsmajor depressionpredictive biomarkerquality of lifesphingolipid metabolism

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PMID31200571
PMCPMC6617165
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