Open Access<p>The Role of Cytokines in Predicting the Efficacy of Acute Stage Treatment in Patients with Schizophrenia</p>
Author(s) -
Xijing He,
Qiaoling Ma,
Yijun Fan,
Binbin Zhao,
Wei Wang,
Feng Zhu,
Xiancang Ma,
Lina Zhou
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s218483
Subject(s) - medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , pathological , positive and negative syndrome scale , stage (stratigraphy) , gastroenterology , therapeutic effect , psychosis , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
Inflammatory response in schizophrenia (SCz) is related to its underlying pathological mechanism and might be significant in deciding a patient's prognosis. The current study aims to investigate the differences in the serum inflammation level between schizophrenic patients and healthy controls and identify inflammatory markers that can predict clinical therapeutic effects in early-stage SCz patients at the 6-month follow-up.