Cited by 317Stress Responses and CortisolAdrenal Hormones and DisordersNeuropeptides and Animal Physiology

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 76 of the 76 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Pathophysiology of hypercortisolism in depression

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The mechanisms mediating hypercortisolemia in depression remain controversial. Adopting the biomarker strategy, we studied adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol dynamics in hypercortisolemic and non-hypercortisolemic depressed in-patients, and in normal volunteers. METHOD: Deconvolution analysis of 24-h pulsatile secretion, approximate entropy (ApEn) estimation of secretory regularity, cross-ApEn quantitation of forward and reverse ACTH-cortisol synchrony, and cosine regression of 24-h rhythmicity. RESULTS: Hypercortisolemia was strongly associated with melancholic and psychotic depressive subtypes. Hypercortisolemic patients had elevated ACTH and cortisol secretion, mediated chiefly by increased burst masses. Basal ACTH secretion was increased, ACTH half-life was reduced, and mean 24-h ACTH concentration was normal. Cortisol secretion was increased in a highly irregular pattern (high ApEn), with high ACTH --> cortisol cross-ApEn (impaired feedforward coupling). Cortisol-mediated feedback on the secretory pattern of ACTH was normal. Hypercortisolemic depressed patients had normal programming of the central hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis pulse generator: ACTH pulse frequency, cortisol pulse frequency, circadian acrophases, and ApEn of ACTH secretion were normal. Responsiveness of the adrenal cortex to endogenous ACTH was normal. Non-hypercortisolemic patients resembled hypercortisolemic patients on ACTH regulatory parameters but had low total cortisol secretion. CONCLUSION: Increased ACTH secretion occurs in depressed in-patients regardless of cortisolemic status, confirming central HPA axis overdrive in severe depression. Depressive hypercortisolemia results from an additional change in the adrenal cortex that causes ACTH-independent, disorderly basal cortisol release, a sign of physiological stress in melancholic/psychotic depression.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2007.00967.x

Cites

76 of 76 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Show all 75 references

Research works printed but not linked: 6

  1. Spitzer RL, 1977, Research diagnostic criteria (RDC) for a selected group of functional disorders
  2. Carroll BJ, 1998, Carroll Depression Scales technical manual
  3. 10.1210/jc.80.12.3750 · DOI
  4. Dinan TG, 2004, Innovative approaches to modulating the HPA axis in depression, Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 7, s37
  5. 10.1210/jc.84.6.2238 · DOI
  6. 10.1530/eje.0.1360394 · DOI

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Items 101–200 of 312

Metadata

Authors
Carroll, B. J., Cassidy, F., Naftolowitz, D., Tatham, N. E., Wilson, W. H., Iranmanesh, A., Liu, P. Y., & Veldhuis, J. D.
Affiliations
  • Duke Medical Center (US)
  • Salem VA Medical Center (US)
  • Mayo Clinic (US)
Corresponding author
Carroll, B. J.
Venue
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2007-01-15
Volume
115
Issue
s433
Pages
90-103
ISSN
  • 0001-690X (ISSN-L)
  • 1600-0447
OpenAlex
W2129968987
Cited by
317
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 18
FWCI
8.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01mh039593-10)
  • U.S. Public Health Service (M0100585)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (P30MH040159, P30 MH 40159)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK060717)
  • National Center for Research Resources (M01RR000030, M01 RR 30, M01RR000585)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD 2R01 MH-39593)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
Keywords
hypercortisolism, depression, ACTH secretion, cortisol secretion, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, pulsatile secretion, approximate entropy, endogenous depression, psychotic depression, circadian rhythm, stress response
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Adult, Aged, Circadian Rhythm, Cushing Syndrome, Major Depressive Disorder, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System, Male, Middle Aged, Pituitary-Adrenal System, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review