Sentences with phrase «whether autoantibodies»

«Our findings contribute further understanding of the biology of psychiatric and neurological diseases and whether autoantibodies detected in a subgroup of patients can trigger psychiatric disorders.

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Ezio Bonifacio, Ph.D., of the DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany and colleagues randomly assigned autoantibody - negative, genetically at - risk children to receive oral insulin at varying doses (n = 15) or placebo (n = 10) once daily for 3 to 18 months to assess whether oral insulin can induce a potentially protective immune response without causing adverse effects.

The researchers, therefore, wanted to study whether the vaccine also increased the risk of developing autoantibodies against beta cells in the pancreas and the occurrence of type 1 diabetes.

Autoantibodies to neuronal proteins have been found in the serum and CSF of over 10 % of patients with epilepsy, whether newly - diagnosed or established (Brenner et al.).