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Tevfik Kalelioglu1, Mustafa Akkus1, Nesrin Karamustafalioglu2
1Department of Psychiatry, Bakırköy Mental Health Research and Training State Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Abstract:
In the present study we investigated the involvement of inflammatory cells and their ratios as inflammation markers in Bipolar Disorder. We have enrolled 61 manic, 55 euthymic patients and 54 control subjects to the study. Neutrophil-lymphocyte and platelet-lymphocyte ratios were found significantly higher in both manic and euthymic patients compared to control group. These findings suggest that the inflammatory cells have a role in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder manic and even in euthymic state.
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