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The Diagnostic Significance of Certain Tests of Carbohydrate Metabolism in Psychiatric Patients and the Question of “Oneirophrenia”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

W. Mayer-Gross*
Affiliation:
From the Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries

Extract

In a previous communication (1951) it was shown that the hyperglycaemic factor described by Meduna and Vaichulis (1948) in the urine of psychotics consisted of two fractions, and that the more active and specific of these was of a protein nature. Morgan and Pilgrim (1952) have prepared concentrates of this factor from the urine of male and female schizophrenics, and have produced further evidence that it is a protein or a substance strongly bound to a protein. In normal male urine they did not find a measurable quantity of the factor.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1952 

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