Psychiatric Symptoms and Proinflammatory Cytokines in Pregnancy

Cytokines, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, and psychiatric symptoms.

Recent research has overcome the old paradigms of the brain as an immunologically privileged organ, and of the exclusive role of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides as signal transducers in the central nervous system. Growing evidence suggests that the signal proteins of the immune system - the cytokines - are also involved in modulation of behavior and induction of psychiatric symptoms. This a...

Prevalence and Factors related of psychiatric symptoms in low risk pregnancy

Proinflammatory Cytokines in Peritonitis

RATIONALE We performed this study with the purpose of revealing different aspects of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome in peritonitis. OBJECTIVES The aim of the presentation was to make a research on some of the immune response mediators in secondary peritonitis and to observe their capacity to anticipate the evolution towards septic complications. METHODS AND RESULTS We have unde...

Proinflammatory cytokines and glutamate in acute stroke.

Proinflammatory Cytokines and Glutamate in Acute Stroke To the Editor: I have with great interest read the article, “Proinflammatory Cytokines and Early Neurological Worsening in Ischemic Stroke,” by Vila et al.1 Bearing in mind the complexities of interleukin (IL)-6 effects, I would like to ask the authors the following questions: Are the patients included in this study the same patients as in...

Proinflammatory Cytokines and Glutamate in Acute Stroke

Proinflammatory Cytokines and Glutamate in Acute Stroke To the Editor: I have with great interest read the article, “Proinflammatory Cytokines and Early Neurological Worsening in Ischemic Stroke,” by Vila et al.1 Bearing in mind the complexities of interleukin (IL)-6 effects, I would like to ask the authors the following questions: Are the patients included in this study the same patients as in...