Increased peripheral blood expression of electron transport chain genes in bipolar depression
Beech RD, Lowthert L, Leffert JJ, Mason PN, Taylor MM, Umlauf S, Lin A, Lee JY, Maloney K, Muralidharan A, Lorberg B, Zhao H, Newton SS, Mane S, Epperson CN, Sinha R, Blumberg H, Bhagwagar Z. Increased peripheral blood expression of electron transport chain genes in bipolar depression. Bipolar Disorders 2010, 12: 813-824. PMID: 21176028, PMCID: PMC3076072, DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5618.2010.00882.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBipolar disorderBipolar depressionPeripheral bloodDepressed subjectsGeneGo MetaCore softwarePeripheral blood expressionHealthy control subjectsReal-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reactionEffects of medicationReverse transcription-polymerase chain reactionQuantitative real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reactionTranscription-polymerase chain reactionMitochondrial electron transport chainControl subjectsPolymerase chain reactionUnmedicated subjectsHealthy controlsBlood expressionBPD subjectsSpecific genetic pathwaysElectron transport chain genesMetaCore softwareA totalAltered expressionQRT-PCR