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Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, 3(9), p. 95-101, 2011

DOI: 10.9758/cpn.2011.9.3.95

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Proteomics as a Tool for Understanding Schizophrenia

Journal article published in 2011 by Daniel Martins-De-Souza ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Schizophrenia is likely to be a multifactorial disorder, consequence of alterations in gene and protein expression since the neurodevelopment that together to environmental factors will trigger the establishment of the disease. In the post-genomic era, proteomics has emerged as a promising strategy for revealing disease and treatment biomarkers as well as a tool for the comprehension of the mechanisms of schizophrenia pathobiology. Here, there is a discussion of the potential pathways and structures that are compromised in schizophrenia according to proteomic findings while studying five distinct brain regions of post-mortem tissue from schizophrenia patients and controls. Proteins involved in energy metabolism, calcium homeostasis, myelinization, and cytoskeleton have been recurrently found to be differentially expressed in schizophrenia brains. These findings may encourage new studies on the understanding of schizophrenia biochemical pathways and even new potential drug targets.