Schizophrenia and impaired homocysteine metabolism: A possible association

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-143

  Susser, Ezra ^a   Brown, Alan S ^a   Klonowski, Emelia ^a   Allen, Robert H ^b   Lindenbaum, John ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Dept Med Columbia Univ C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Case control; Folate; Homocysteine; Nutrition; Prenatal; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0032527574     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(97)00427-7     Document Type: Article

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