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ALTERED LEVELS OF REELIN AND ITS ISOFORMS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND MOOD DISORDERS SH Fatemi, University of Minnesota Reelin is a secreted extracellular matrix protein ~410kDa mol wt that is reduced in brains of patients with schizophrenia, autism, bipolar disorder and major depression.  Recent reports also indicate its near absence in sera of some patients with …

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LACK OF RIC-3 CONGRUENCE WITH BETA2 SUBUNIT-CONTAINING NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS IN BIPOLAR DISORDER Neuroscience. 2007 Aug 24;148(2):454-60. Epub 2007 Jul 19 Severance EG, Yolken RH Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Blalock 1105, Baltimore, MD 21287-4933, USA. [email protected] ABSTRACT Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) …

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ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY FOR MEASUREMENT OF ANTI-BORNA DISEASE VIRUS p40/p24 ANTIBODY IN ANIMAL AND HUMAN SERA K. Yamaguchi*, T. Sawada, S. Yamane, K. Ikeda, R. Igata-Yi, Y. Horii, RW Waltrip II, KM Carbone. Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Eisai Tsukuba Research Laboratory, Tokyo Inst. Psych, Veteran Int. Med, Japan, University of Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Division …

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A COMPREHENSIVE GENETIC ASSOCIATION AND FUNCTIONAL STUDY OF TNF IN SCHIZOPHRENIA RISK Schizophr Res. 2006 Mar;83(1):7-13. Shirts BH, Bamne M, Kim JJ, Talkowski M, Wood J, Yolken R, Nimgaonkar VL ABSTRACT: In view of prior reports suggesting associations between polymorphisms of the tumor necrosis factor gene (TNF) and schizophrenia, we sequenced all exons, introns and …

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CYTOMEGALOVIRUS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA CNS Drugs 20(11):879-885 Torrey EF, Leweke MF, Schwarz MJ, Mueller N, Bachmann S, Schroeder J, Dickerson F, Yolken RH The Stanley Medical Research Institute and Uniformed Services University of the Health Services, Bethesda, MD 20814-2142. [email protected] ABSTRACT: Several lines of evidence suggest that cytomegalovirus (CMV) may play an aetiological role in schizophrenia. …

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  FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS STUDIES OF BIPOLAR DISORDER   Sabine Bahn and Colleagues   Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK Stanley Laboratories, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, USA and Bethesda, MD, USA       Results of microarray studies on human post-mortem tissue have suggested abnormalities in lipid- and myelin-related genes in the prefrontal cortex of schizophrenia1-3.  Recently we …

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BRAIN MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH EXPOSURE TO HSV1 IN FIRST-EPISODE SCHIZOPHRENIA Mol Psychiatry 12(1):105-113, 2007 Prasad KM, Shirts BH, Yolken RH, Keshavan MS, Nimgaonkar VL Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. [email protected] ABSTRACT: Infectious agents have been proposed as one of the risk …

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Viral and Cellular Determinants of HIV Dementia S Gartner, Y Liu, E Hunter and JC McArthur   Current models for HIV dementia implicate not only HIV infections and replication, but also immune activation within the brain.  The temporal relationship between these, however, and the relative contributions of each to the disease process, remain points of …

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