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No effect of metrazol shock or insulin coma on the precipitation pattern2 of the serum proteins could be demonstrated.
Metrazol shock therapy produced an increase in the concentration of total protein in the serum.
A small but significant difference between the serum protein precipitation patterns in schizophrenia and in health was observed. The finding indicated that the proportion of euglobulin in the serum proteins of the schizophrenic patients was less than in the serum proteins of the healthy subjects studied.
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Research Associate in Biochemistry of the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the Hartford Retreat, Hartford, Conn.
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Kondritzer, A.A., Barrera, S.E. A study of serum proteins in mental disease. Psych Quar 15, 336–342 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01563333
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