Electrophoretic Study of Cerebrospinal Fluid Protein Components

Part II. Survey in Abnormal Liquor

Abstract

1. In this paper, the electrophoretic sutdy on the protein components of the cerebrospinal fluid in 15 cases of schizophrenia, 13 cases of epilepsy and 11 cases of general paralysis was reported.
2. Each fraction of liquor protein components in schizophrenia was almost the same as in normal liquor.
3. In case of epilepsy, the mean value of the toal protein amount was almost the same as that of the normal liquor, but X-component, alpha-globulin and gamma-globulin indicated a tendency to increase altogether. Particularly, X-component showed a remarkable increase.
4. None of X-component was observed in the liquor protein in -cases of general paralysis, but gamm-globulin increased conspiculously and the globulin/albumin ratio was usually above 1.0.