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SUBMITTER: Yoshimi N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4832124 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yoshimi Noriko N Futamura Takashi T Kakumoto Keiji K Salehi Alireza M AM Sellgren Carl M CM Holmén-Larsson Jessica J Jakobsson Joel J Pålsson Erik E Landén Mikael M Hashimoto Kenji K
BBA clinical 20160403
<h4>Background</h4>Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe and debilitating psychiatric disorder. However, the precise biological basis remains unknown, hampering the search for novel biomarkers. We performed a metabolomics analysis to discover novel peripheral biomarkers for BD.<h4>Methods</h4>We quantified serum levels of 116 metabolites in mood-stabilized male BD patients (n = 54) and age-matched male healthy controls (n = 39).<h4>Results</h4>After multivariate logistic regression, serum levels of ...[more]