Peripheral blood levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): A systematic review and meta-analysis

Helia Mojtabavi; Amene Saghazadeh; Leigh van den Heuvel; Joana Bucker; Nima Rezaei

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0241928

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Peripheral blood levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): A systematic review and meta-analysis

Helia Mojtabavi,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Expert Group (SRMEG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran
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Amene Saghazadeh,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, MetaCognition Interest Group (MCIG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran
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Leigh van den Heuvel,

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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Joana Bucker,

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bipolar Disorder Program and Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, National Institute for Translational Medicine, INCT-TM Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Nima Rezaei

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: rezaei_nima@tums.ac.ir, rezaei_nima@yahoo.com

Affiliations Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Expert Group (SRMEG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran, Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, MetaCognition Interest Group (MCIG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-1827

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Peripheral blood levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): A systematic review and meta-analysis

Helia Mojtabavi,
Amene Saghazadeh,
Leigh van den Heuvel,
Joana Bucker,
Nima Rezaei

Published: November 5, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241928

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