Amino acid and acylcarnitine levels relate with chronic schizophrenia

Poster (download) Irina Mednova1, Alexandr Chernonosov2, Marat Kasakin3, Elena Kornetova4, Arkadiy Semke5, Nikolay Bokhan6, Vladimir Koval7, Svetlana Ivanova81Mental Health Research Institute, TNRMC, Tomsk, Russia, irinka145@yandex.ru2Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, alexander.chernonosov@niboch.nsc.ru3Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, kassakinm@gmail.com4Mental Health Research Institute, TNRMC, Tomsk, Russia, kornetova@sibmail.com5Mental Health Research Institute, TNRMC, Tomsk, Russia, asemke@mail.ru6Mental Health Research Institute, TNRMC, Tomsk, Russia, mental@tnimc.ru7Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, koval@niboch.nsc.ru8Mental Health Research Institute, TNRMC, Tomsk, Russia, ivanovaniipz@gmail.com Amino acids and acylcarnitines play important role as substrates and intermediate products in the most pathways related with schizophrenia. We found a significant decrease in the concentration of valine, aspartate, citrulline, glycine, arginine, glutamate and ornithine as well as C14, C14OH, C16OH, C16:1, C16:1OH, РЎ18, C18OH, C18:1, РЎ18:1OH, C18:2OH and C5:1 and increase C4DC in patients with schizophrenia in comparison to the controls.

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