Absence of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antibodies in sera and CSF from schizophrenia patients

Affiliations

• ¹ Second Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 124 62 Athens, Greece.
• ² Tzartos NeuroDiagnostics, 115 23 Athens, Greece.
• ³ Tzartos NeuroDiagnostics, 115 23 Athens, Greece; Department of Neurobiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, 115 21 Athens, Greece; Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras, 265 00 Patras, Greece.
• ⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany; Laboratory of Translational Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany; Laboratory of Translational Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany; Laboratory of Neuroproteomics, Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
• ⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany; Laboratory of Translational Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS), Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Health and Medical Prevention (CHaMP), Magdeburg, Germany; German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Intervention and Research on Adaptive and Maladaptive Brain Circuits Underlying Mental Health (C-I-R-C), Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. Electronic address: johann.steiner@med.ovgu.de.