Cai, HuaLin
Cao, Ting
Li, NaNa
Fang, PingFei
Xu, Ping
Wu, XiangXin
Zhang, BiKui
Xiang, DaXiong
Funding for this research was provided by:
Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC81401113)
Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2017JJ3444)
Article History
Received: 23 March 2019
Revised: 21 May 2019
Accepted: 29 May 2019
First Online: 14 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Hunan, China. The patients were recruited at their first admission to the Second Xiangya Hospital after they signed the informed consent. All healthy volunteers were recruited from the same community of MDD patients. Their fasting morning plasma samples were also collected after the informed consent to participate in the study was obtained.
: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.