Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of control and MDD subjects

		Control	MDD	p-value
Number of subjects		25	22	N/A
Age (Year)		50.8 ± 10.6	51.6 ± 12.9	0.809
Gender	Male	15	12	N/A
	Female	10	10
Postmortem interval (Hour)		28.5 ± 15.3	29.5 ± 9.7	0.781
Brain pH		6.5 ± 0.4	6.6 ± 0.3	0.328
Alcohol abuse		0	4	N/A
Antidepressant drugs		0	18	N/A
Suicide		0	10	N/A
Cause of death		Cardiac arrest, respiratory failure	Cardiac arrest, cancer, trauma, hepatic abnormalities, Ischemic bowel	N/A
Method of suicide		N/A	Drug toxicity, hanging

Values denote mean ± standard deviation. MDD: Major Depressive Disorder, N/A: not applicable.