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Blues in the Brain and Beyond: Molecular Bases of Major Depressive Disorder and Relative Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Treatments.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Targeting Toll-like Receptor 4/Nuclear Factor-κB and Nrf2/Heme Oxygenase-1 Crosstalk via Trimetazidine Alleviates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Depressive-like Behaviors in Mice.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2024Article
- DNA methylation changes in association with trauma-focused psychotherapy efficacy in treatment-resistant depression patients: a prospective longitudinal study.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Current Perspectives on Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Interventions for the Inflammatory Mechanism of Unipolar Depression.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- RPS6KA5 methylation predict response to 6-week treatment for adolescent MDD patients.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Characteristics of platelet-associated parameters and their predictive values in Chinese patients with affective disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Hippocampal Over-Expression of Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) Is Associated with Susceptibility to Stress-Induced Anhedonia in Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Revisiting bupropion anti-inflammatory action: involvement of the TLR2/TLR4 and JAK2/STAT3.Inflammopharmacology · 2021Article
- Design and Synthesis of Novel Thiazolo[5,4-d]pyrimidine Derivatives with High Affinity for Both the Adenosine APharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Complex Molecular Picture of Gut and Oral Microbiota-Brain-Depression System: What We Know and What We Need to Know.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Beyond Haemostasis and Thrombosis: Platelets in Depression and Its Co-Morbidities.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
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Abstract
Despite the extensive research conducted in recent decades, the molecular mechanisms underlying major depressive disorder (MDD) and relative evidence-based treatments remain unclear. Various hypotheses have been successively proposed, involving different biological systems. This narrative review aims to critically illustrate the main pathogenic hypotheses of MDD, ranging from the historical ones based on the monoaminergic and neurotrophic theories, through the subsequent neurodevelopmental, glutamatergic, GABAergic, inflammatory/immune and endocrine explanations, until the most recent evidence postulating a role for fatty acids and the gut microbiota. Moreover, the molecular effects of established both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches for MDD are also reviewed. Overall, the existing literature indicates that the molecular mechanisms described in the context of these different hypotheses, rather than representing alternative ones to each other, are likely to contribute together, often with reciprocal interactions, to the development of MDD and to the effectiveness of treatments, and points at the need for further research efforts in this field.
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