Team Identifies a Molecular Switch Linking Infectious Disease and Depression

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 20:49 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the University of Illinois report that IDO, an enzyme found throughout the body and long suspected of playing a role in depression, is in fact essential to the onset of depressive symptoms sparked by chronic inflammation.

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