TY - GEN AU - Dalia Mohamed Shawer AU - aSara Mahmood Elkateb , AU - Fatma Abd Ellatif Moussa , AU - Mohammed Elsayed Eltawel , TI - Biological markers of women vulnerability to depression / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - Dalia Mohamed Shawer , KW - depression KW - Thyroid function N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Neuropsychiatry; Issued also as CD N2 - It has been well known for at least that is an interaction between thyroid function , estrogen hormone and depressive illness Furthermore , L - thyronine and estrogen hormones are used as adjuvant to antidepressants It was found that patients with low normal range of thyroid hormones were vulnerable to depression , whereas , menopausal women are more vulnerable , knowing that depression is buffered by estrogen effect UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -