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Frieda L. Smith, AB; George L. Ellman, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1968;18(1):117-119.

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EVIDENCE has been presented that sera of schizophrenic patients may contain a factor, or factors, not present in normal sera which are capable of influencing carbohydrate metabolism of various tissues, eg, chicken erythrocytes,^1,2 yeast cells,³ and rat diaphragm.⁴ Serum effects on chicken erythrocyte lactate-pyruvate ratios have been reported to be useful as an indication of schizophrenic illness.^5,6 However, attempts to repeat these studies have but limited success.^7,8 In addition, there is a possibility that there may be present in some human subjects an antibody against chicken erythrocytes which could cause a partial lysis of these cells with a concomitant rise in glycolysis. This may account for reported alterations in chicken erythrocyte metabolism produced by the plasma of certain schizophrenic patients.⁹ In this type of study, therefore, complications could arise due to interspecific protein-protein reactions, eg, antibody-antigen reactions.

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Author Affiliations
San Francisco

From the California Department of Mental Hygiene, Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 1, 1967.

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