Elevated glutamine/glutamate ratio in cerebrospinal fluid of first episode and drug naive schizophrenic patients

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Recent magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) studies report that glutamine is altered in the brains of schizophrenic patients. There were also conflicting findings on glutamate in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of schizophrenic patients,...

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Main Authors: Lindström Leif H, Nordin Conny, Shimizu Eiji, Engberg Göran, Hashimoto Kenji, Iyo Masaomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-01-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/5/6