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ReviewBiological psychiatry2020

Potential Roles of Redox Dysregulation in the Development of Schizophrenia.

Diana O Perkins, Clark D Jeffries, Kim Q Do

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Review in Biological psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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61citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Novel drug treatments for schizophrenia.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  13. Electrochemistry as a Tool for Redox-Based Bio-Information Processing.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Diana O PerkinsDepartment of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Electronic address: diana_perkins@med.unc.edu.
Clark D JeffriesRenaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Kim Q DoCenter for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland.
Renaissance Computing Institute · USUniversity of Lausanne · CHUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

5/9 Predictors and Mechanisms of Conversion to PsychosisU01MH082004 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI PERKINS, DIANA O. · 2008 to 2018
$7.5M
NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH082004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Converging evidence implicates redox dysregulation as a pathological mechanism driving the emergence of psychosis. Increased oxidative damage and decreased capacity of intracellular redox modulatory systems are consistent findings in persons with schizophrenia as well as in persons at clinical high risk who subsequently developed frank psychosis. Levels of glutathione, a key regulator of cellular redox status, are reduced in the medial prefrontal cortex, striatum, and thalamus in schizophrenia. In humans with schizophrenia and in rodent models recapitulating various features of schizophrenia, redox dysregulation is linked to reductions of parvalbumin containing gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) interneurons and volumes of their perineuronal nets, white matter abnormalities, and microglia activation. Importantly, the activity of transcription factors, kinases, and phosphatases regulating diverse aspects of neurodevelopment and synaptic plasticity varies according to cellular redox state. Molecules regulating interneuron function under redox control include NMDA receptor subunits GluN1 and GluN2A as well as KEAP1 (regulator of transcription factor NRF2). In a rodent schizophrenia model characterized by impaired glutathione synthesis, the Gclm knockout mouse, oxidative stress activated MMP9 (matrix metalloprotease 9) via its redox-responsive regulatory sites, causing a cascade of molecular events leading to microglia activation, perineural net degradation, and impaired NMDA receptor function. Molecular pathways under redox control are implicated in the etiopathology of schizophrenia and are attractive drug targets for individualized drug therapy trials in the contexts of prevention and treatment of psychosis.

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SchizophreniaAnimalsKelch-Like ECH-Associated Protein 1MiceNF-E2-Related Factor 2Oxidation-ReductionParvalbuminsKelch-Like ECH-Associated Protein 1NF-E2-Related Factor 2ParvalbuminsClinical high riskGclm KOGlutathioneGrin2A KOMMP9Oxidative stressPsychosisRedoxSchizophrenia

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PMID32560962
PMCPMC7395886
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