Cytokine hypothesis of schizophrenia pathogenesis

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I only posted this as I’m about to research more,of course,if you want.
This is the first hypothesis that I posted about role of cytokines as immune cells in schizophrenia.
I tend to research this area because I found correlation between schizophrenia as autoimmune disease,which is for now unproved hypothesis in humans,but tends to be promising.
Of course,this is one of theory,but also I believe there are different factors in developing schizophrenia,as for example genetic predisposition in people who’s parents had or have MI,and also where schizophrenia is developed by use of certain psychotropic substance.
That has nothing to do with this findings.
Also,if this hypothesis is proven,there will be new agents that differ in structure of novel antipsychotics.
There are articles I found that measure amount and type of cytokines in each antipsychotic.
For example,cytokines tend to be present in larger amount in risperidone treatment,while insignificant in aripiprazole therapy.
For further research I need more likes.

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