Auto-antibodies in affective disorders

Abstract

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  1. One hundred depressive patients were tested for the presence of several auto-antibodies.

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  2. Rheumatoid factor — tested with three different techniques-, antinuclear antibodies, and two other auto-antibodies (antimitochondrial and anti-basemembrane antibodies) could not be found in a higher frequency than in normals, whereas the occurrence of the thyroglobulin auto-antibodies was just above the upper limit of normals.

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  3. Factors eventually influencing the results and directions for further work are discussed on the basis of previous studies.