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Subjects were assessed by means of different ED evaluation tools. Additionally, the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale and the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale were also employed. Patients with ED shown increased plasma levels of the pro-inflammatory nuclear factor <jats:italic>kappa<\/jats:italic> B (NF\u03baB) and the cytokine tumor necrosis factor-<jats:italic>alpha<\/jats:italic> (TNF-\u03b1), among other factors and an increment in the oxidative\/nitrosative stress as well as increased glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expression levels in their PBMCs. Moreover, the inflammatory prostaglandin E<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> (PGE<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>) correlated with impulsiveness and the anti-inflammatory prostaglandin J<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> (15d-PGJ<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>) correlated with depressive symptomatology. 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