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ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 68, 期 7, 页码 665-674出版社
AMER MEDICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.71
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- National Institute of Mental Health [MH-K12RR023250, MH49826, MH67014, MH075101, MH079172, MH68580]
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
- VA Capitol Health Care Network Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center
- University of Maryland General Clinical Research Center [M01-RR16500]
- National Center for Research Resources
- National Institutes of Health
Context: Kynurenic acid, a metabolite of the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan degradation, is an antagonist at N-methyl-D-aspartate and alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and modulates glutamate, dopamine, and acetylcholine signaling. Cortical kynurenic acid concentrations are elevated in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of schizophrenia patients. The proximal cause may be an impairment of kynurenine 3-monooxygenase (KMO), a rate-limiting enzyme at the branching point of the kynurenine pathway. Objectives: To examine KMO messenger RNA expression and KMO enzyme activity in postmortem tissue from the frontal eye field (FEF; Brodmann area 6) obtained from schizophrenia individuals compared with healthy control individuals and to explore the relationship between KM single-nucleotide polymorphisms and schizophrenia oculomotor endophenotypes. Design: Case-control postmortem and clinical study. Setting: Maryland Brain Collection, outpatient clinics. Participants: Postmortem specimens from schizophrenia patients (n = 32) and control donors (n = 32) and a clinical sample of schizophrenia patients (n = 248) and healthy controls (n = 228). Main Outcome Measures: Comparison of quantitative KMO messenger RNA expression and KMO enzyme activity in postmortem FEF tissue between schizophrenia patients and controls and association of KMO single-nucleotide polymorphisms with messenger RNA expression in postmortem FEF and schizophrenia and oculomotor endophenotypes (ie, smooth pursuit eye movements and oculomotor delayed response). Results: in postmortem tissue, we found a significant and correlated reduction in KMO gene expression and KMO enzyme activity in the FEF in schizophrenia patients. In the clinical sample, KMO rs2275163 was not associated with a diagnosis of schizophrenia but showed modest effects on predictive pursuit and visuospatial working memory endophenotypes. Conclusion: Our results provide converging lines of evidence implicating reduced KMO activity in the etiopathophysiology of schizophrenia and related neurocognitive deficits.
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