The British Journal of Psychiatry 136: 584-590 (1980)
© 1980 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Cyclic AMP levels in blood cells from a short-cycle manic-depressive subject
DE Buckley, GJ Naylor, DA Stansfield and RA Brown
Erythrocyte and leucocyte numbers and cyclic AMP content were monitored
weekly in a mentally defective short-cycle manic-depressive woman. The
erythrocyte count remained relatively constant but cyclic AMP content when
manic was significantly higher than when depressed, and the mood and
biochemical data appeared to have the same periodicity, with coincident
peaks and troughs. Total leucocytes were related to mood, with peaks in the
manic phase. Mononuclear cyclic AMP content varied without relation to
manic or depressive phases.