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MOTOE HIRATA-HIBI, MD; W. J. FESSEL, MRCP

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;10(4):414-419.

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The purpose of this paper is (1) to present additional hematological abnormalities seen in studies of bone marrow of schizophrenic patients; (2) to give evidence for the genealogy of the abnormal cells which have been described in the peripheral blood of schizophrenic patients¹; and (3) to suggest that these abnormal cells may be related to the abnormal blood proteins found in psychiatric patients.² Elsewhere we have described the abnormal white blood cells in schizophrenia as falling into three main types: the first representing abnormal lymphocytes; the second seeming to belong to the reticulum cell series; and the least numerous, the third type, being multinucleated giant cells.¹ Kamp found that in comparison to normal the nucleus of the lymphocyte was deeper staining and the chromatin lacked an organized pattern.³

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Patients.—We studied seven male, chronic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

From the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, University of California School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 19, 1963.

Supported in part by grant 61-1-29 from the California Department of Mental Hygiene, and in part by grant MH-04581-02 from the National Institutes of Health.

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