The study supports the emerging hypothesis that schizophrenia is a developmental dopaminergic disorder.
, the scientists created dopamine-like neurons to replicate the cell differentiation process during an embryo’s development. Cell differentiation is the process by which dividing cells change their functional or phenotypical type.
The researchers discovered that not only cell differentiation but the neuron structure was affected by vitamin D. The ‘machinery’ that Eyles mentioned are neurites, which are information messengers. They are projections growing from the body of a neuron, essential in the formation of complex neuronal circuits. As information messengers, neurites send and receive signals to and from other parts of the. The researchers found that the number of neurites was markedly increased, and within those neurites, the distribution of the proteins responsible for releasing dopamine was altered, explained the NewAtlas.
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