PMID- 26412071 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160809 LR - 20240325 IS - 1875-6190 (Electronic) IS - 1570-159X (Print) IS - 1570-159X (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 4 DP - 2015 TI - Research on the Pathological Mechanism and Drug Treatment Mechanism of Depression. PG - 514-23 AB - Depression is one of the prevalent and persistent psychiatric illnesses. It brings heavy socioeconomic burden such as healthcare expenditures and even higher suicide rates. Despite many hypotheses about its mechanism have been put forward, so far it is still unclear, not to mention the precise and effective diagnostic or therapeutic methods. In this paper, the current conditions of pathological and pharmacological mechanism of depression were reviewed systematically. Firstly, the most recent hypotheses and metabolomics based research including hereditary, neurotransmitter systems, brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), hyperactivity of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and inflammatory as well as metabolomics were summarized. Secondly, the present situation and development on antidepressant drugs at home and abroad were reviewed. Finally, a conclusion and prospect on the pathological and pharmacological mechanism of depression were provided primarily. FAU - Peng, Guo-jiang AU - Peng GJ FAU - Tian, Jun-sheng AU - Tian JS FAU - Gao, Xiao-xia AU - Gao XX FAU - Zhou, Yu-zhi AU - Zhou YZ FAU - Qin, Xue-mei AU - Qin XM AD - Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine of Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, PR China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review PL - United Arab Emirates TA - Curr Neuropharmacol JT - Current neuropharmacology JID - 101157239 RN - 0 (Antidepressive Agents) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antidepressive Agents/*pharmacology MH - Depression/*drug therapy/pathology MH - Depressive Disorder/*drug therapy MH - Humans MH - Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System/*drug effects MH - Pituitary-Adrenal System/*drug effects MH - Research/trends PMC - PMC4790409 EDAT- 2015/09/29 06:00 MHDA- 2016/08/10 06:00 PMCR- 2016/01/01 CRDT- 2015/09/29 06:00 PHST- 2015/09/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/09/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/08/10 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - CN-EPUB-69988 [pii] AID - CN-13-514 [pii] AID - 10.2174/1570159x1304150831120428 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Neuropharmacol. 2015;13(4):514-23. doi: 10.2174/1570159x1304150831120428.