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So depression is an inflammatory disease, but where does the inflammation come from?

Published in BMC medicine • Sep 12, 2013
Authors:
Michael Berk
,
Lana J Williams
,
Felice N Jacka

Abstract

BACKGROUND: We now know that depression is associated with a chronic, low-grade inflammatory response and activation of cell-mediated immunity, as well as activation of the compensatory anti-inflammatory reflex system. It is similarly accompanied by increased oxidative and nitrosative stress (O&NS),...

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