BACKGROUND: Given the wealth of data in the literature on schizophrenia
endophenotypes, it is useful to have one source to reference their frequency data. We …

The present paper demonstrates a remarkable pervasiveness of underlying Ca2+ signaling
motifs among the available biochemical findings in schizophrenic patients and among the …

Microarray expression profiling of prefrontal cortex from matched pairs of schizophrenic and
control subjects and hierarchical data analysis revealed that transcripts encoding proteins …

Psychoactive drugs of fungal origin, psilocin, ibotenic acid, and muscimol among them have
been proposed for recreational use and popularized since the 1960s, XX century. Despite …

A review of the relevant published literature regarding disorders of thermoregulation in
people with schizophrenia was undertaken. This entailed a search of the Medline and …

Phospholipids make up about 60% of the brain's dry weight and play key roles in many brain
signal tranduction mechanisms. A recent review1identified the increasing evidence that …

Bioactive lipids, in particular arachidonic acid (AA), are vital for monoaminergic
neurotransmission, brain development and synaptic plasticity. Phospholipases A2 (PLA2) …

A range of neurotransmitter systems have been implicated in the pathogenesis of
schizophrenia based on the antidopaminergic activities of antipsychotic medications, and …

BACKGROUND: Increased activity of calcium independent phospholipase A2 (iPLA2) has
repeatedly been found in the serum of unmedicated first-episode schizophrenia patients and …

Niacin dilates cutaneous blood vessels, resulting in a pronounced skin flush in most people.
The flush response to niacin is attenuated in schizophrenia, but the quantification and …