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Graham Mellsop, MD, MRC Psych; Senga Whittingham, MB, PhD; Berta Ungar, MD, FRCPA

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1973;28(2):194-196.

Abstract
Middle-aged women with schizophrenia and two matched control groups drawn from a similar hospital environment and a normal population were tested for autoantibodies to nuclear, thyroid, gastric, smooth muscle, and mitochondrial antigens. Schizophrenic patients failed to show the association of antibodies considered to be characteristic of autoimmune disease. In the schizophrenic patients and hospitalized subnormal controls there was an increased prevalence of autoantibodies to nuclei of blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes. This could be attributed to chance or an effect associated with prolonged hospitalization. Our findings offer little support to the autoimmune concept of schizophrenia.

Author Affiliations
Melbourne

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne (Dr. Mellsop); the Clinical Research Unit, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (Dr. Whittingham); and the Department of Haematology, Royal Melbourne Hospital (Dr. Ungar), Melbourne.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 15, 1972.

Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Sciences Building, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, 3050, Australia (Dr. Mellsop).

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