Junwei Yan, Qingrong Xia, Xuejun Sun, Pei Yang, Hua Gao, Zhongde Pan, Jianliang Gao, Loufeng Zhang, Meiti Wang, Keming Wang, Chao Li, Xulai Zhang, Peijun Ju, Cuizhen Zhu
As a major mental health disorder, symptoms of schizophrenia (SCZ) include delusions, reduced motivation, hallucinations, reduced motivation and a variety of cognitive disabilities. Many of these symptoms are now known to be associated with abnormal regulation of the immune system. Low blood levels of cytokines and chemokines have been suggested to be one of the underlying causes of SCZ. However, their biological roles at different stages of SCZ remain unclear. Our objective was to investigate expression patterns of cytokines and chemokines at different stages of onset and relapse in SCZ patients and to conduct an analysis of their relationship to disease progression...
April 24, 2024: Progress in Neuro-psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry