Schizophrenia and other mental disorders require long-term adoptive immunotherapy

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 154-158

  Wank, Rudolf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CD3 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; AUTISM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0036693182     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(02)00163-9     Document Type: Article

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