Ena Španić Popovački, Dora Vogrinc, Heidi R Fuller, Lea Langer Horvat, Davor Mayer, Janja Kopić, Klara Pintarić, Mirjana Babić Leko, Mihaela Pravica, Željka Krsnik, Darko Marčinko, Marina Šagud, Patrick R Hof, Mihovil Mladinov, Goran Šimić
Schizophrenia is a complex mental condition, with key symptoms marked for diagnosis including delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, reduced emotional expression, and social dysfunction. In the context of major developmental hypotheses of schizophrenia, notably those concerning maternal immune activation and neuroinflammation, we studied NLRP1 expression and content in the postmortem brain tissue of 10 schizophrenia and 10 control subjects. In the medial orbitofrontal cortex (Brodmann's area 11/12) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (area 46) from both hemispheres of six schizophrenia subjects, the NLRP1 mRNA expression was significantly higher than in six control brains ( p < 0...
March 4, 2024: Biomolecules