Journal article
Sulphatoxy melatonin: An index of depression in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Abstract
Urinary excretion of the principal melatonin metabolite, sulphatoxy melatonin (aMT6s), was assessed both during the day and during the night in 38 female eating disorder patients (anorexia nervosa, n = 17; bulimia nervosa, n = 12; anorexia nervosa + bulimia nervosa, n = 9) and 14 female control subjects. Correlations between nocturnal serum melatonin and urinary aMT6s were also obtained. All patient groups and the controls showed a preservation …
Authors
Kennedy SH; Brown GM; Garfinkel PE; McVey G; Costa D; Parienti V
Journal
Psychiatry Research, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 221–227
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 1990
DOI
10.1016/0165-1781(90)90027-3
ISSN
0165-1781