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taraxein

protein complex isolated from blood of schizophrenics; contains copper bound to protein

Networked: 4 relevant articles (0 outcomes, 1 trials/studies)

Bio-Agent Context: Research Results

Experts

1.	Baumeister, Alan: 1 article (04/2011)

Related Diseases

1.	Schizophrenia (Dementia Praecox) 10/27/1961 - "[5-year study on the occurrence of an abnormal blood factor (taraxein) in schizophrenia]." 04/01/2011 - "This article recounts the scientific developments that led up to Heath's putative discovery and it explores the scientific findings for and against the taraxein theory of schizophrenia." 06/01/1970 - "Relation to taraxein to schizophrenia." 04/01/2011 - "In 1956, Dr. Robert Galbraith Heath, Chair of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, announced that he and colleagues had discovered a protein they called taraxein in the blood of schizophrenic patients that caused symptoms of schizophrenia when injected into healthy volunteers. "
2.	Psychotic Disorders (Schizoaffective Disorder) 02/01/1960 - "[Role of taraxein in the pathogenesis of psychoses]."

Related Drugs and Biologics

1.	Proteins (Proteins, Gene)