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ELEVATED LEVELS OF HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS-W TRANSCRIPTS IN BLOOD CELLS FROM PATIENTS WITH FIRST EPISODE SCHIZOPHRENIA Genes Brain Behav. 2007 Jun 7 [Epub ahead of print] Yao Y, Schröder J, Nellåker C, Bottmer C, Bachmann S, Yolken RH, Karlsson H Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden ABSTRACT We previously reported on the differential presence […]

SEROPREVALENCE OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPES 16 AND 17 IN THE GENERAL POPULATION IN TAIWAN: IMPLICATION FOR OPTIMAL AGE OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS VACCINATION J Clin Virol 2007 Feb; 38(2):126-130 Chen CJ, Viscidi RP, Chuang CH, Huang YC, Chiu CH, Lin TY Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Children’s Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial

ARE SOME CASES OF PSYCHOSIS CAUSED BY MICROBIAL AGENTS? A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE Mol Psychiatry. 2008 May;13(5):470-9. Epub2008 Feb 12. Yolken RH, Torres EF. The Stanley Laboratory of Developmental Neurovirology, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21287-4933, USA. [email protected] ABSTRACT The infectious theory of psychosis, prominent early in the twentieth

DISC1-NDEL1/NUDEL PROTEIN INTERACTION, AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT FOR NEURITE OUTGROWTH, IS MODULATED BY GENETIC VARIATIONS OF DISC1 Hum Mol Genet 15(22):3313-3323, 2006 Kamiya A, Tomoda T, Chang J, Takaki M, Zhan C, Morita M, Cascio MB, Elashvili S, Koizumi H, Takanezawa Y, Dickerson F, Yolken R, Arai H, Sawa A Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,

TEMPLE MONKEYS AND HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF COMMENSALISM, KATHMANDU, NEPAL Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Jun;12(6):900-6 Jones-Engel L, Engel GA, Heidrich J, Chalise M, Poudel N, Viscidi R, Barry PA, Allan JS, Grant R, Kyes R University of Washington—National Primate Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. [email protected] ABSTRACT The threat of zoonotic transmission of infectious agents at

INFECTIOUS AGENTS AND GENE-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS IN THE ETIOPATHOGENESIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Clinical Neuroscience Research 6 (2006) 97-109 Robert H. Yolken, E. Fuller Torrey Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Blalock 1105, Baltimore, MD 21287-4933, USA; Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD USA ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia is a pervasive

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION AND CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA AMONG YOUNG WOMEN IN THE GUANACASTE COHORT SHORTLY AFTER INITIATION OF SEXUAL LIF Sex Trans Dis 2007 Jan 17 [Epub ahead of print] Rodriguez AC, Burk R, Herrero R, Hildesheim A, Bratti C, Sherman ME, Solomon D, Guillen D, Alfaro M, Viscidi R, Morales

A DANISH NATIONAL BIRTH COHORT STUDY OF MATERNAL HSV-2 ANTIBODIES AS A RISK FACTOR FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA IN THEIR OFFSPRING Schizophr Res 2010 Jun 30 [Epub ahead of print] Mortensen PB, Pederson CB, Hougaard DM, Nørgaard-Petersen B, Mors O, Børglum AD, Yolken RH National Centre for Register-based Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Aarhus, Taasingegade

SEROLOGICAL CROSS REACTIVITY BETWEEN POLYOMAVIRUS CAPSIDS Adv Exp Med Biol. 2006;577:73-84 Viscidi RP, Clayman B Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ABSTRACT Mulitple methods have been used to measure antibodies to polyomavirus virions. In order to have a common method for all polyomaviruses, we developed enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) using virus-like-particles (VLPs) produced

OLIGODENDROCYTE DYSFUNCTION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER Lancet 362:798-805, 2003 Dmitri Takchev, Michael L. Mimmack, Margaret M. Ryan, Matt Wayland, Tom Freeman, Peter B. Jones, Michael Starkey, Maree J. Webster, Robert H. Yolken, Sabine Bahn ABSTRACT: Background: Results of array studies have suggested abnormalities in expression of lipid and myelin-related genes in schizophrenia. Here, we