Red cell membrane fatty acids, cytosolic phospholipase-A2 and schizophrenia.

doi:10.1016/s0920-9964(98)00016-4

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Red cell membrane fatty acids, cytosolic phospholipase-A2 and schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia research - 25 May 1998

Doris A B, Wahle K, MacDonald A, Morris S, Coffey I, Muir W, Blackwood D

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Forty subjects with schizophrenia and 40 age- and sex-matched controls were recruited, and blood samples were obtained for analysis of red cell membrane fatty acid composition by capillary gas chromatography. A blood sample was also taken from the same population to test for allelic association b...

Topics

Adult
Alleles
Case-Control Studies
Erythrocyte Membrane
Fatty Acids
Female
Genetic Markers
Humans
Male
Matched-Pair Analysis
Membrane Lipids
Middle Aged
Phospholipases A
Phospholipases A2
Polymorphism, Genetic
Schizophrenia

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