Season of birth and inflammatory response system in schizophrenia

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 879-880

  Altamura, A Carlo ^a,b   Bassetti, Roberta ^a   Bocchio, Luisella ^b   Santini, Annalisa ^a   Mundo, Emanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Schizophrenia; Season of birth

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 130; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPRING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WINTER;

EID: 0041630913     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(03)00122-2     Document Type: Article

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