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. 2024 Feb 2;29(5):1440–1449. doi: 10.1038/s41380-024-02422-x

Fig. 1. Strategy for neuropeptide studies of iNs derived from schizophrenia (SZ) and healthy control (HC) subjects.

Fig. 1

a Induced neurons (Ins) derived from tissue biopsies from SZ and HC subjects. The iNs were generated by direct reprogramming of fibroblasts obtained from SZ and HC tissue biopsies. Neurons were subjected to KCl (50 mM) stimulation of secretion and the media was collected for neuropeptidomics analysis achieved by nano-LC-MS/MS tandem mass spectrometry and bioinformatics using PEAKS and NeuroPedia for identification and quantitation of neuropeptides. b SZ and HC biopsy samples. Individual SZ and HC biopsy samples are listed by condition of SZ or HC, age, and gender. The sample sizes were selected based on power analysis to characterize neuropeptide identities and quantities with significance. Note that the predicted effect was not known at the beginning of this project, and effects of only in SZ or only in HC were observed with SZ (n = 7) and HC (n = 6) numbers of patient-derived cell lines in this study.