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Immune activation by casein dietary antigens in bipolar disorder.

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OBJECTIVES: Inflammation and other immune processes are increasingly linked to psychiatric diseases. Antigenic triggers specific to bipolar disorder are not yet defined. We tested whether antibodies to bovine milk caseins were associated with bipolar disorder, and whether patients recognized different epitopes of the casein protein than control individuals. METHODS: Anti-bovine casein immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels were measured with solid-phase immunoassays in 75 individuals with bipolar disorder and 65 controls. Epitope recognition was evaluated in immunoassays by cross neutralization with anti-bovine casein polyclonal antibodies of defined reactivity. Group-specific reactivity and associations with symptom severity scores were detected with age-, gender-, and race-controlled regression models. RESULTS: Individuals with bipolar disorder had significantly elevated anti-casein IgG (t-test, p ≤0.001) compared to controls. Casein IgG seropositivity conferred odds ratios of 3.97 for bipolar disorder [n=75, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.31-12.08, p ≤0.015], 5.26 for the bipolar I subtype (n=56, 95% CI: 1.66-16.64, p ≤0.005), and 3.98 for bipolar disorder with psychosis (n=54, 95% CI: 1.32-12.00, p ≤0.014). Lithium and/or antipsychotic medication did not significantly affect anti-casein IgG levels. Casein IgG measures correlated with severity of manic (R(2) =0.15, 95% CI: 0.05-0.24, p ≤0.02) but not depressive symptoms. Unlike controls, sera from individuals with bipolar disorder did not inhibit binding of casein-reactive animal sera (t-test/χ(2) , p ≤0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: Anti-casein IgG associations with bipolar I diagnoses, psychotic symptom history, and mania severity scores suggest that casein-related immune activation may relate to the psychosis and mania components of this mood disorder. Case-control differences in epitope recognition implicate disease-related alterations in how the casein molecule is digested and/or how resulting casein-derived structures are rendered immunogenic.

journal_name

Bipolar Disord

journal_title

Bipolar disorders

authors

Severance EG,Dupont D,Dickerson FB,Stallings CR,Origoni AE,Krivogorsky B,Yang S,Haasnoot W,Yolken RH

doi

10.1111/j.1399-5618.2010.00879.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2010-12-01 00:00:00

pages

834-42

issue

eissn

1398-5647

issn

1399-5618

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Immune activation by casein dietary antigens in bipolar disorder.