A comparative proteome analysis of hippocampal tissue from schizophrenic and Alzheimer's disease individuals

Autor: Brian Dean, Richard L.M. Faull, Paul F. Edgar, Garth J. S. Cooper, Robert R. Kydd, Sarah J. Schönberger
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Molecular Psychiatry. 4:173-178
ISSN: 1476-5578
1359-4184
Popis: The proteins expressed by a genome have been termed the proteome. Comparative proteome analysis of brain tissue offers a novel means to identify biologically significant gene products that underlie psychopathology. In this study we collected post mortem hippocampal tissue from the brains of seven schizophrenic, seven Alzheimer's disease (AD) and seven control individuals. Hippocampal proteomes were visualised by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of homogenised tissue. A mean of 549 (s.d. 35) proteins were successfully matched between each disease group and the control group. In comparison with the control hippocampal proteome, eight proteins in the schizophrenic hippocampal proteome were found to be decreased and eight increased in concentration, whereas, in the AD hippocampal proteome, 35 proteins were decreased and 73 were increased in concentration (P
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