Calcium function in affective disorders and healthy controls

• Published in: Biological psychiatry (1969) Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 367 - 376
• Main Authors: Bowden, Charles L., Huang, Lena G., Javors, Martin A., Johnson, Joseph M., Seleshi, Ermias, Mclntyre, Kathryn, Contreras, Salvador, James, W.Maas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 15.02.1988; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Bipolar Disorder - blood; Blood Platelets - metabolism; Ca(2+) Mg(2+)-ATPase - blood; Calcium - blood; Calcium - cerebrospinal fluid; Calcium-Transporting ATPases - blood; Depressive Disorder - blood; Erythrocytes - metabolism; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Techniques and methods; Assay; Human; Affective disorder; Platelet; Calcium; Red blood cell; Metabolism

Calcium metabolism has been reported to be disturbed in some forms of affective disorder. We studied concurrently a battery of calcium measures in 29 unipolar, 14 bipolar depressed, 11 manic, and 10 healthy control subjects. In addition to measures of extracellular calcium, we studied intracellular...