Heme oxygenase-1 in blood and saliva during acute psychosis : A pilot study

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Despite the extensive prevalence of psychosis and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, their biological underpinnings remain largely unexplained. Recently, the overproduction of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), an enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of heme, was associated with oxidative stress and a neurologic phenotype similar to schizophrenia in transgenic mice. We sought to evaluate, by comparing patients experiencing an acute psychotic episode, and age/sex-matched healthy control participants, whether there was an association between HO-1 overexpression and psychosis. This cross-sectional pilot study included 16 patients and 17 control participants. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction were used to quantify HO-1 expression in blood and saliva. Four psychiatric questionnaires were used to measure psychiatric symptoms in participants. Higher levels of salivary HO-1 expression were detected in patients experiencing an acute psychotic episode when compared to control participants (84.01 vs. 61.26 ng/ml, p = 0.026), but plasma and lymphocyte HO-1 expression did not significantly differ between groups. Overexpression of HO-1 in saliva specimens was also positively associated with psychiatric symptom severity and disability. The overexpression of HO-1 in the saliva of patients with psychosis suggests that it may serve as a potential biomarker for this symptom which should be explored in larger clinical trials.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:299

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Psychiatry research - 299(2021) vom: 05. Mai, Seite 113857

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bertrand, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Tavitian, Ayda [VerfasserIn]
Galindez, Julia M [VerfasserIn]
Kothari, Vimal [VerfasserIn]
Mohit, Shrisha [VerfasserIn]
Galindez, Carmela [VerfasserIn]
Liberman, Adrienne [VerfasserIn]
Glass, Judy [VerfasserIn]
Velly, Ana M [VerfasserIn]
Gornitsky, Mervyn [VerfasserIn]
Looper, Karl [VerfasserIn]
Rej, Soham [VerfasserIn]
Schipper, Hyman M [VerfasserIn]

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EC 1.14.14.18
Heme Oxygenase-1
Heme oxygenase-1
Journal Article
Oxidative stress
Psychosis
Schizophrenia

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Date Completed 25.08.2021

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113857

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323124690