Brain Behavior and Immunity,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
120, P. 430 - 438
Published: June 17, 2024
Recent
studies
have
associated
immune
abnormalities
with
dementia.
IL-6
is
a
crucial
cytokine
in
inflammatory
responses,
and
recent
evidence
has
linked
elevated
levels
to
changes
brain
structure
cognitive
decline.
However,
the
connection
between
levels,
cognition,
volumes,
dementia
risk
requires
exploration
large
prospective
cohorts.
BMC Medicine,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
21(1)
Published: July 10, 2023
Abstract
Background
Inflammation
has
been
implicated
in
the
pathology
of
schizophrenia
and
may
cause
neuronal
cell
death
dendrite
loss.
Neuroimaging
studies
have
highlighted
longitudinal
brain
structural
changes
patients
with
schizophrenia,
yet
it
is
unclear
whether
this
related
to
inflammation.
We
aim
address
question,
by
relating
transcriptional
profile
inflammation
markers
early
stage
schizophrenia.
Methods
Thirty-eight
first-episode
51
healthy
controls
were
included.
High-resolution
T1-weighted
magnetic
resonance
imaging
(MRI)
clinical
assessments
performed
at
baseline
2
~
6
months
follow-up
for
all
subjects.
Changes
structure
analyzed
using
surface-based
morphological
analysis
correlated
expression
immune
cells-related
gene
sets
interest
reported
previous
reviews.
Transcriptional
data
retrieved
from
Allen
Human
Brain
Atlas.
Furthermore,
we
examined
peripheral
association
behavioral
symptoms
cognitive
functioning
patients.
Results
Patients
exhibited
accelerated
cortical
thickness
decrease
left
frontal
cortices,
less
or
an
increase
superior
parietal
lobule
right
lateral
occipital
lobe,
increased
volume
bilateral
pallidum,
compared
controls.
level
monocyte
across
regions
(
r
=
0.54,
p
<
0.01),
but
not
−
0.05,
0.76).
In
addition,
change
positively
digital
span-backward
test
scores
Conclusions
exhibit
regional-specific
prefrontal
parietooccipital
which
their
impairment.
be
important
factor
contributing
thinning
Our
findings
suggest
that
immunity-brain-behavior
play
a
crucial
role
pathogenesis
BMC Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
23(1)
Published: April 19, 2023
Positive
associations
between
the
risk
of
schizophrenia
and
level
white
blood
cells
(WBC)
count
have
been
suggested
by
observational
studies.
However,
causality
this
association
is
still
unclear.We
used
a
group
bidirectional
two-sample
Mendelian
randomization
(MR)
analyses
to
estimate
causal
relationship
WBC
traits
(i.e.,
count,
lymphocyte
neutrophil
basophil
eosinophil
monocyte
count).
The
threshold
FDR-adjusted
P
<
0.05
was
considered
as
showing
potential
evidence
effect.
Instrument
variables
were
included
based
on
genome-wide
significance
(P
5
×
10-
8)
linkage
disequilibrium
(LD)
clumping
(r2
0.01).
In
total,
81,
95,
85,
87,
76,
83
schizophrenia-related
single
nucleotide
polymorphisms
(SNPs)
genetic
instruments
from
Psychiatric
Genomics
Consortium
for
six
traits,
respectively.
And
in
reverse
MR
analysis,
458,
206,
408,
468,
473,
390
variants
extracted
utilized
instruments,
which
obtained
recent
large-scale
Genome-Wide
Association
Study
(GWAS).Genetically
predicted
positively
associated
with
[odds
ratio
(OR)
1.017,
95%
confidence
interval
(CI)
1.008-1.026;
=
7.53
4],
(OR
1.014,
95%CI
1.005-1.022;
0.002),
1.021,
1.011-1.031;
2.77
4),
1.018,
1.009-1.027;
4.60
1.012-1.030;
4.51
5),
1.013,
0.004).
are
not
our
results.Schizophrenia
elevated
levels
higher
Brain Behavior and Immunity,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
120, P. 430 - 438
Published: June 17, 2024
Recent
studies
have
associated
immune
abnormalities
with
dementia.
IL-6
is
a
crucial
cytokine
in
inflammatory
responses,
and
recent
evidence
has
linked
elevated
levels
to
changes
brain
structure
cognitive
decline.
However,
the
connection
between
levels,
cognition,
volumes,
dementia
risk
requires
exploration
large
prospective
cohorts.