“…Many authors have observed the lack of consistent results regarding cytokines in schizophrenia (Potvin et al, 2008;Miller et al, 2011;Na et al, 2014). For example, although there is evidence of increased IL-2 (Potvin et al, 2008;Miller et al, 2011), IL-6 (Kubistova et al, 2012Al-Asmari and Khan, 2014;DunjicKostic et al, 2013;Kalmady et al, 2014;Sasayama et al, 2013;Song et al, 2014), and IL-8 (Maes et al, 2002;Brown et al, 2004;Zhang et al, 2004) levels in schizophrenia, some studies have not found a significant difference from healthy controls in IL-2 (Na et al, 2014), IL-6 (Baker et al, 1996), andIL-8 (O'Brien et al, 2008;Kubistova et al, 2012), or even a decrease in IL-2 (Miller et al, 2011;Na et al, 2014) and IL-6 levels compared to controls (Singh et al, 2009). The decrease in the TNF-a level in schizophrenia patients in this study is consistent with a recent study (Francesconi et al, 2011), although previous studies have observed significantly greater TNF-a levels (O'Brien et al, 2008;Kim et al, 2009), or no difference from healthy controls (Borovcanin et al, 2012(Borovcanin et al, , 2013.…”