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CHLOROQUINE—RELATED DEPRESSION

Drugs are known to induce depressive states. Chloroquine, an antimalarial, in therapeutic doses administered for malaria therapy, may produce symptoms rather indistinguishable from endogenous depression. The possible mechanisms of production of depression related to chloroquine use are hypothesised.

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Autores principales: Das, E. Mohan, Mohan, D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1981
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22065137
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spelling pubmed-30131742011-11-06 CHLOROQUINE—RELATED DEPRESSION Das, E. Mohan Mohan, D. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Drugs are known to induce depressive states. Chloroquine, an antimalarial, in therapeutic doses administered for malaria therapy, may produce symptoms rather indistinguishable from endogenous depression. The possible mechanisms of production of depression related to chloroquine use are hypothesised. Medknow Publications 1981 /pmc/articles/PMC3013174/ /pubmed/22065137 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Das, E. Mohan
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CHLOROQUINE—RELATED DEPRESSION
title CHLOROQUINE—RELATED DEPRESSION
title_full CHLOROQUINE—RELATED DEPRESSION
title_fullStr CHLOROQUINE—RELATED DEPRESSION
title_full_unstemmed CHLOROQUINE—RELATED DEPRESSION
title_short CHLOROQUINE—RELATED DEPRESSION
title_sort chloroquine—related depression
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22065137
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