IMPACT OF RETROELEMENTS ON HUMAN GENE REGULATIONS Patrik Medstrand, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lund University, Biomedical Centre, BMC B13, 221 84 Lund, Sweden We have previously shown that the distribution of retroelements (REs) in humans is not random but distributed differently with respect to GC content and gene density. As an […]
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HERPESVIRUSES AND TOXOPLASMA GONDII IN ORBITAL FRONTAL CORTEX OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS Schizophr Res 2003 Mar 1;60(1):65-9 Conejero-Goldberg C, Torrey EF, Yolken RH ABSTRACT: Herpes simplex virus (HSV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and human herpesvirus-6 (HV-6) are viruses capable of establishing latency. All of these infect the CNS and have been detected in human postmortem
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The Stanley Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University The Stanley Laboratory was founded in 1996 to promote research into the role of infectious agents in the etiology and pathogenesis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The Stanley Laboratory is fully supported by the Stanley Medical Research Institute (www.stanleyresearch.org). Some of the scientific background of the Laboratory’s
DEFICIT SCHIZOPHRENIA: ASSOCIATION WITH SERUM ANTIBODIES TO CYTOMEGALOVIRUS Schizophr Bull. 2006 Apr;32(2):396-400 Dickerson F, Kirkpatrick B, Boronow J, Stallings C, Origoni A, Yolken R ABSTRACT: Background: Patients with deficit schizophrenia differ from nondeficit patients with schizophrenia relative to several neurobiological correlates and relative to the risk factors of family history and season of birth. Exposure
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IMMUNOGLOBULIN G, A, AND M RESPONSES TO BK VIRUS IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2006 Sep;13(9):1057-63 Randhawa PS, Gupta G, Vats A, Shapiro R, Viscidi RP Department of Pathology, Division of Transplant Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, E 737 UPMC-Montefiore Hospital, 3459 Fifth Ave., PA 15213, USA. [email protected] ABSTRACT Immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgA, and IgM
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MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: EVIDENCE FOR COMPROMISED BRAIN METALOLISM AND OXIDATIVE STRESS Mol Psychiatry 9:684-697, 2004 Prabakaran S, Swatton JE, Ryan MM, Huffaker SJ, Huang JT, Griffin JL, Wayland M, Freeman T, Dudbridge F, Lilley KS, Karp NA, Hester S, Tkachev D, Mimmack ML, Yolken RY, Webster MJ, Torrey EF, Bahn S ABSTRACT: The etiology
WORKSHOP ON SCHIZOPHRENIA (Proc. Natl.Acad. Sci., USA 94:1612-1614, 1997) Samuel H. Barondesa, Bruce M. Albertsb, Nancy C. Andreasenc,Cornelia Bargmannd, Francine Benese, Patricia Goldman-Rakicf, Irving Gottesmang, Stephen F. Heinemannh, Edward G. Jonesi, Marc Kirschnerj, David Lewisk, Martin Raffl,Allen Rosesm, John Rubensteinn, Solomon Snydero, Stanley J. Watsonp, Daniel R. Weinbergerq, and Robert H. Yolkenr aDepartment of Psychiatry,
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Information for Applicants For Using Postmortem Brain Tissue From the Stanley Foundation Neuropathology Consortium Alternate sides of the brain are fixed in 105 phosphate buffered formalin or frozen at -70°C, except for the brainstem and cerebellum, which are completely frozen. The formalin fixed blocks are embedded in paraffin. The frozen half is initially coronally sectioned
2nd Symposium on the Neurovirology and Neuroimmunology of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Thursday, November 14, 1996 8:00-9:00: Check in and Continental Breakfast SESSION I: THE STANLEY NEUROVIROLOGY LABORATORY OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 9:00: Robert H. Yolken: Overview of the Stanley Laboratory Program-Do We Really Think that Infections Can Cause Human Psychiatric Diseases. 9:20: Frances
Biological Psychiatry 1997;41:759-761 EDITORIAL IDENTIFICATION OF DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED RNA TRANSCRIPTS IN NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS Frances Yee, Robert H. Yolken INTRODUCTION With recent advances in molecular biology techniques and methodologies, it is now possible to study the etiology and pathogenesis of many neuropsychiatric illnesses in which little is currently known about the disease process. Cloning of
