Depression and Chronic Liver Diseases: Are There Shared Underlying Mechanisms?

The occurrence of depression is higher in patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) than that in the general population. The mechanism described in previous studies mainly focused on inflammation and stress, which not only exists in CLD, but also emerges in common chronic diseases, leaving the speci...

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Main Authors: Xiaoqin Huang, Xiaoyun Liu, Yongqiang Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnmol.2017.00134/full