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Analysis of association between the Gln192Arg polymorphism of the paraoxonase gene and schizophrenia in humans.
Neuroscience letters - 22 Mar 2002
Matsumoto Chima, Ohmori Osamu, Hori Hiroko, Shinkai Takahiro, Nakamura Jun
Abstract excerpt
An increasing amount of evidence suggests a possible implication of oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Oxidized low-density lipoproteins (oxLDL) have been reported to be capable of eliciting neurocytotoxicity. On the other hand, paraoxonase (PON1), an arylesterase, plays a role in protection against oxidative modifications of LDL and is considered to be one of the antioxidant enzymes. Thus,...
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