Staying at the crossroads: assessment of the potential of serum lithium monitoring in predicting an ideal lithium dose Em uma encruzilhada: potencial do nível plasmático de lítio como preditor da dose ideal

Staying at the crossroads: assessment of the potential of serum lithium monitoring in predicting an ideal lithium dose Em uma encruzilhada: potencial do nível plasmático de lítio como preditor da dose ideal

OBJECTIVE: Lithium has been successfully employed to treat bipolar disorder for decades, and recently, was shown to attenuate the symptoms of other pathologies such as Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome, ischemic processes, and glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity. However, lithium's n...

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Main Authors: Thiago Zaqueu Lima, Miriam Marcela Blanco, Jair Guilherme dos Santos Júnior, Carolina Tesone Coelho, Luiz Eugênio Mello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2008-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
Subjects:
Cloreto de lítio
Cérebro
Teste
Teste, campo aberto
Soro
Lithium chloride
Brain
Test
Open field test
Serum
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