Increasing evidence suggests estrogen and estrogen signaling pathway disturbances
across psychiatric disorders. Estrogens are not only crucial in sexual maturation and …

Objectives There is still a great demand for the improvement of oral prophylaxis methods.
One repeatedly described approach is rinsing with edible oils. The aim of the present review …

The purpose of this study was to assess 65 pedigrees ascertained through a Bipolar I (BPI)
proband for evidence of linkage, using nonparametric methods in a genome-wide scan and …

Sex steroids readily pass the blood-brain barrier, and receptors for them are abundant in
brain areas important for the regulation of emotions, cognition and behaviour. Animal …

Up to twenty percent of the American population suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder,
and cross-national studies suggest a high prevalence of such disorders elsewhere. In recent …

BACKGROUND: Age at menarche has a strong genetic influence. We reported recently an
association between the Xba I (351A→ C) and Pvu II (397T→ C) polymorphisms of the …

Sex steroid hormones have multiple effects on lipid metabolism. We investigated the
association between two common single nucleotide polymorphisms of the estrogen receptor …

Estrogen receptors (ERs) play a multitude of roles in brain function and are implicated in
various brain disorders. The use of positron emission tomography (PET) tracers for the …

Introduction Estrogen and its receptors have been suggested as playing a role in the
pathogenesis of bipolar disorder (BD). Estrogen functions through the estrogen receptors …

Major depression is nearly twice as prevalent in women compared to men. In bipolar
disorder, depressive episodes have been reported to be more common amongst female …