Hornig, Lipkin and chronic fatigue syndrome again

Drs Mady Hornig and Ian Lipkin once again provide some fodder for this blog,  continuing one of their important research themes on how chro...

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Immunosuppression as a therapeutic pathway of clozapine?

" Our data suggest that the superior therapeutic effect of clozapine may be a result of its presently shown immunosuppressive action. ...

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Autism, luteolin and inflammatory markers

" We further show that the children with ASDs  [autism spectrum disorders]  in which the elevated serum IL-6 and TNF levels decreased...

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Autism, asthma and IL-17

" IL-17 was increased in ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  children with co-morbid asthma compared to controls with the same condition....

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Inflaming inflammation and psychiatry

The systematic review published by Mitchell & Goldstein  [1] kinda says it all when it comes to our current view of the topic of inflamm...

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Plasma leptin levels and autism: a growing consistency?

Increased levels of leptin  in cases of autism was a primary finding described in the paper by Rodrigues and colleagues  [1] as part of thei...

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sPECAM pie and school-aged autism

I've talked about adhesion molecules with autism in mind before on this blog ( see here ). In that entry it was some interesting data ou...

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Immune profile during pregnancy and autism

The question of a possible connection between the immune system and autism, at least some cases of autism spectrum conditions, continues onw...

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Dem bones dem bones dem dry bones

There is some very interesting research into autism coming out of King Saud University in Saudi Arabia this year. The various papers publish...

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