Thiol/disulphide homeostasis in schizophrenia patients with positive symptoms

Abstract

The disulfide/native thiol ratio in patients with schizophrenia who have been using medication for the last 2 months has been found to be significantly higher than controls who have not been using medication, may be indicating that the level of native thiol does not increase in a correlation as high as the increase in disulfide levels. It demonstrates that thiol/disulfide equilibrium has shifted towards the disulfide. The excess disulfide amounts might associated with both disease itself and the using medication.

Effects of Hemodialysis on Thiol-Disulphide Homeostasis in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

“…Previous studies researched thiol-disulphide homeostasis in many other acute and chronic diseases [ 20 – 22 ]. However, there has been no study researching thiol/disulphide homeostasis in pediatric patients with AKI using a new, automated method [ 17 ].…”

The strong relationship between disease severity and thiol-disulphide homeostasis in patients with restless legs syndrome

“…Recently, there is growing interest in thiol-disulphide homeostasis test. The many diseases .have been associated with a deterioration in thiol-disulphide homeostasis, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, acute pancreatitis, ankylosing spondylitis, and age-related macular degeneration [8,9,18,19]. Thiol compounds forming an important part of the antioxidant defense system are vulnerable to oxidant agents [20].…”

Hydrogen sulfide signalling in the CNS ‐ Comparison with NO

“…In contrast, the lack of H 2 S production may cause the pathology of Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease (Cao et al, 2018;Chung et al, 2004;He et al, 2016;Paul et al, 2014;Sbodio et al, 2016Sbodio et al, , 2018Vandiver et al, 2013;Wright et al, 2016;Xie et al, 2013). The detrimental effects caused by the excess production of H 2 S and H 2 S n (Ide et al, 2019) as well as those by lacking in the neuroprotective effect of these molecules (Topcuoglu et al, 2017;Ünal et al, 2018;Xiong et al, 2018) have been reported for the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. (Taub et al, 1999).…”