TRANSLATIONAL MODELS TO ADDRESS NEURO-IMMUNE AFFECTATIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

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Preclinical studies of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia do not have models that resemble or mimic with sufficient/satisfactory validity the complexity of complex psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia. In our team we hypothesize that alterations in the function of a family of essential transcription factors for the maturation and function of certain types of circulating immune cells induces aberrant immune system-central nervous system communication that could explain some of the symptoms observed in the schizophrenia.

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