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The normal response of serum Cortisol suppression, following a standard dose of dexamethasone given orally, is absent in approximately 50% of patients suffering from affective disorders with a significant element of endogenous depression, due to failure of negative feed-back to suppress the limbic system.
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Lascelles, P.T., Donaldson, D. (1989). Dexamethasone Suppression Test (DST)4. In: Diagnostic Function Tests in Chemical Pathology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1846-7_23
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