KMID : 1118520190160080607
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Psychiatry Investigation 2019 Volume.16 No. 8 p.607 ~ p.614
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Distinct Inflammation Biomarkers in Healthy Individuals and Patients with Schizophrenia: A Reliability Testing of Multiplex Cytokine Immunoassay by Bland-Altman Analysis
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Yeh Ta-Chuan
Chu Hsuan-Te Tsai Chia-Kuang Chang Hsin-An Yang Fu-Chi Huang San-Yuan Liang Chih-Sung
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Abstract
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Objective: Since the inflammatory process has been implicated in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorder, an important issue emerging is to assess the test-retest reliability of cytokine measurement in healthy individuals and patients with schizophrenia. The objective of the present study was to investigate the test-retest reliability of bead-based multiplex immunoassay technology (BMIT) for cytokine measurement by using a Bland-Altman plot (BAP).
Methods: Twenty healthy individuals and twenty patients with schizophrenia were enrolled, and a 17-plex cytokine assay was used to measure inflammatory biomarkers at baseline and two weeks later. The test-retest reliability was examined by BAP, 95% limits of agreement (LOA), intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), and coefficient of repeatability (CoR).
Results: In the healthy controls, only interleukin (IL)-2, IL-13, IL-10, IL-17, and macrophage inflammatory protein-1¥â showed excellent ICC. The BAP with 95% LOA determined that 13 cytokines showed acceptable 95% LOA for a 2-week test-retest reliability, and only IL-1¥â, IL-12 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-¥á had significant test-retest bias. The CoR of cytokines varied significantly, ranging from 1.72 to 218.1. Compared with healthy controls, patients with schizophrenia showed significantly higher levels of IL-5, IL-13, and TNF-¥á and significantly lower levels of IL-4, IL-12, and interferon-gamma (IFN-¥ã). Of these six cytokines, IL-12 and TNF-¥á were considered suboptimal reliability.
Conclusion: The findings from ICC and CoR implied that the test-retest reliability of BMIT for cytokine measurement were suboptimal. However, the BAP with 95% LOA confirmed that BMIT can reliably distinguish schizophrenia from healthy individuals in cytokine measurement, while significant within-subject variation and between-group overlapping were evident in cytokine expression.
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KEYWORD
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Multiplex immunoassay, Cytokine, Reliability, Inflammation, Schizophrenia
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