Lymphocytes from bipolar and schizophrenic patients share common biochemical markers related to histone synthesis and histone cell membrane localization characteristic of an activated state

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-67

  Sourlingas, Thomae G ^a,e   Issidorides, Marietta R ^b,c   Alevizos, Basil ^c   Kontaxakis, Vassilis P ^c   Chrysanthou Piterou, Margarita ^b,c   Livaniou, Evangelia ^a   Karpouza, Angeliki P ^d   Sekeri Pataryas, Kalliope E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b Theodor Theohari Cozzika Foundation   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e General Hospital 'Alexandra' ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Cell cycle; Cell membranes; Histones; Lymphocytes; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CELL CYCLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0037621661     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(03)00041-6     Document Type: Article

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