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Salivary Osteocalcin and its association to psychiatric disorders
Osteocalcin: A novel biomarker of adolescent psychopathology
Rnic, K., Jopling, E., Tracy, A., Battaglini, A., Grocott, B., Lam, R. W., & LeMoult, J. 2024 Psychoneuroendocrinology
ABSTRACT: Osteocalcin is a bone-derived hormone implicated in the acute stress response and recently linked to adult depression. Yet it is unclear whether osteocalcin is a biomarker of other forms of psychopathology and whether osteocalcin-psychopathology associations emerge during developmentally sensitive periods earlier in life. Thus, in the current pilot study we examined salivary osteocalcin and psychiatric symptoms and disorders among 48 early adolescents during a period of stress…
Keywords: Salivary osteocalcin, psychopathology, dysregulated response, stress, mental disorders, adolescence
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