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Production of High-Energy Phosphate Bonds in Schizophrenia
JACQUES S. GOTTLIEB, M.D.;
CHARLES E. FROHMAN, Ph.D.;
PETER G. S. BECKETT, M.B.;
GARFIELD TOURNEY, M.D.;
RITA SENF, Ph.D.
AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1959;1(3):243-249.
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Introduction
In previous communications1,2 data have been presented indicating some disturbance in the transformation of chemical to kinetic energy in patients with schizophrenia. The evidence is concerned with both the levels and the specific activity of adenosinetriphosphate (ATP). When this compound loses a phosphate ion and is converted to adenosinediphosphate (ADP), energy is released in large amounts. This energy is used for bodily processes, such as the maintenance of bodily temperature, muscle tone and contraction, neuronal activity and nerve conduction, synthetic processes, assimilation, absorption, and detoxification. Previous reports demonstrated that insulin as a stresser increased the specific activity of ATP in control subjects while decreasing it in chronic schizophrenic patients. This disturbance was demonstrated in the erythrocytes, since these are the most convenient tissue for study.
The possible identification of a basic intracellular chemical disturbance of energy formation and utilization in the schizo
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Author Affiliations
Detroit
From the Lafayette Clinic and Wayne State University College of Medicine.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 8, 1959.
This is the third in a series of reports of the experimental study of Biologic Energy Transfer Systems in Schizophrenia.
This study was supported in part by the Committee on Research of the Supreme Council, 33d Degree, Scottish Rite Freemasonry, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction.
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