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Factors Involved in Drug-Produced Model Psychoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Roland Fischer
Roland Fischer*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Unit, Department of Public Health General Hospital, Munroe Wing Research Laboratory Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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The use of fibrous wool protein as a model of the structural surface of receptors, possibly involved in the mechanism producing a model psychosis by drugs, was suggested by three lines of evidence.

First, the strong affinity (sorption) of certain basic compounds to keratins of low sulphur content as exemplified by the Gram-positiveness of epidermal (Fischer, 1953c) and nervous (Bailey, 1950) tissue.

Second, the accumulating evidence indicating the similarity in behaviour between keratins of high sulphur content (e.g. wool) and the protein component of certain cell membranes (Fischer, 1951; Fischer and Larose, l952a; idem, 1952b; Larose and Fischer, 1952; idem, l953a and 1953b).

Third, some preliminary experiments confirming the role of wool protein as a useful model to simulate some of those receptors for which certain drugs appear to compete.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 100 , Issue 420 , July 1954 , pp. 623 - 631
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1954 

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