Cited by 11Schizophrenia research and treatmentMetabolomics and Mass Spectrometry StudiesFatty Acid Research and Health

Shorter Chain Triglycerides Are Negatively Associated with Symptom Improvement in Schizophrenia

Open access
Tkachev, Anna, Stekolshchikova, Elena, Anikanov, Nickolay, Zozulya, Svetlana, Barkhatova, Aleksandra, Klyushnik, Tatiana, Petrova, Daria·2021·Biomolecules

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder requiring lifelong treatment. While medications are available that are effective in treating some patients, individual treatment responses can vary, with some patients exhibiting resistance to one or multiple drugs. Currently, little is known about the causes of the difference in treatment response observed among individuals with schizophrenia, and satisfactory markers of poor response are not available for clinical practice. Here, we studied the changes in the levels of 322 blood plasma lipids between two time points assessed in 92 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia during their inpatient treatment and their association with the extent of symptom improvement. We found 20 triglyceride species increased in individuals with the least improvement in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) scores, but not in those with the largest reduction in PANSS scores. These triglyceride species were distinct from the rest of the triglyceride species present in blood plasma. They contained a relatively low number of carbons in their fatty acid residues and were relatively low in abundance compared to the principal triglyceride species of blood plasma.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.3390/biom11050720

Cites

53 of 53 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Nine studies evaluated broad panels of different lipid markers in patients with SCZ and detected statistical differences in fatty acyls, sterols, glycerolipids, sphingolipids, glycerophospholipids, and products of lipid metabolism.

    “Nine studies evaluated the broad panels of different lipid markers in patients with SCZ [31,34,40,41,42,43,44,45,46] and detected statistical differences in the following lipid classes: fatty acyls, sterols, glycerolipids, sphingolipids, glycerophospholipids, and products of lipid metabolism.”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Tkachev, A., Stekolshchikova, E., Anikanov, N., Zozulya, S., Barkhatova, A., Klyushnik, T., & Petrova, D.
Affiliations
  • Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (RU)
  • V. Zelman Center for Neurobiology and Brain Restoration, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 121205 Moscow, Russia
  • Mental Health Research Center of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RU)
Corresponding author
Tkachev, Anna
Venue
Biomolecules
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-05-11
Volume
11
Issue
5
Pages
720
ISSN
2218-273X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3163838196
Cited by
11
References
53
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1
FWCI
1.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Biomolecules (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Russian Science Foundation (19-74-00151)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Fatty Acid Research and Health
Keywords
schizophrenia, triglycerides, short-chain fatty acids, plasma lipids, treatment response, symptom improvement, PANSS, lipidomics, biomarkers, inpatient care
MeSH terms
Lipidomics, Adolescent, Adult, Behavioral Symptoms, Female, Humans, Inpatients, Male, Russia, Schizophrenia, Antipsychotic Agents, Triglycerides, Biomarkers, Treatment Outcome, Young Adult

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review