ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2025
Investigating the relationship between inflammatory cytokines and adolescent depression: a comparative analysis.
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- Association Between Clinical Symptoms and Inflammatory Markers in First-Episode Unmedicated Patients with Major Depressive Disorder.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2026Article
- SSRI-induced modulation of cytokines, barrier permeability, and BDNF in adolescent depression.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Current Insight into Biological Markers of Depressive Disorder in Children and Adolescents: A Narrative Review.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Inflammatory burden index is correlated with increased depression: a population-based study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents poses a significant threat to physical health. Previous studies have indicated that adolescents with MDD exhibit immune activation. Objective: This study aimed to compare cytokine levels in adolescents with MDD to healthy controls and assess their diagnostic value. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 58 adolescent patients with depression from Beijing Anding Hospital (outpatients and inpatients) and 40 healthy adolescents recruited from the community. Multiplex cytokine analysis (Luminex xMAP) was used to measure serum levels of several cytokines. Data analysis was performed using SPSS (version 26.0) to compare cytokine levels between adolescents with MDD and healthy controls and assess gender differences. Correlations between cytokine levels and demographic data, clinical features and depressive symptoms were also analyzed. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to evaluate the diagnostic value of cytokines. Results: Serum IL-4, IFN-γ, and TNF-α levels were significantly elevated in MDD group compared with healthy controls ( Conclusion: Compared with healthy controls, adolescents with depression demonstrated significantly elevated serum cytokine levels, indicating immune activation which were higher in female. Cytokines may have promising diagnostic value in adolescent depression, but further validation with additional indicators is needed.
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