Article
Upregulation of the Intestinal Paracellular Pathway with Breakdown of Tight and Adherens Junctions in Deficit Schizophrenia
2019-01-15
Abstract excerpt
In 2001, the first author of this paper reported that schizophrenia is associated with an increased frequency of the haptoglobin (Hp)-2 gene. The precursor of Hp-2 is zonulin, a molecule that affects intercellular tight junction integrity. Recently, we reported increased plasma IgA/IgM responses to Gram-negative bacteria in deficit schizophrenia indicating leaky gut and gut dysbiosis. The current study was perform...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3875074c-1012-5ab3-a60b-5a7a1ea33602
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201901.0141.v1
