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Glucose and Adenosine Triphosphate Level in Normal Subjects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. Damas Mora ,
D. Vlissides  and
F. A. Jenner
J. Damas Mora
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield, S6 1TP
D. Vlissides
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield, S6 1TP
F. A. Jenner
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield, S6 1TP
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In Orthomolecular Psychiatry; Treatment of Schizophrenia, edited by David Hawkins and Linus Pauling (1973), Beebe and Wendel (pp. 278–302) report a high correlation coefficient of r = 0.99 (which we calculate gives N = 42, p very much lower than 0.001) between whole blood glucose and adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This relationship they claim is no longer maintained in schizophrenics with anxiety, r = 0.16 (N = 62, p > 0.1). Erban and Hanzlicek (1966), Hansen (1972) and Hansen and Dimitrakoudi (1974) have suggested a possible significance of whole blood ATP in psychoses, and Naylor, Dick, Dick, Le Poidevin and Whyte (1973) have implicated red cell Na/K ATPases. The mechanisms involved in controlling blood ATP seemed therefore worthy of study especially if they are so dependent on glucose.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 588 , November 1974 , pp. 459 - 460
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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