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The antipsychotic medication, risperidone, causes global immunosuppression in healthy mice

  • Meghan May,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, United States of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5230-1281

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  • Megan Beauchemin,

    Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

    Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, United States of America

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  • Calvin Vary,

    Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

    Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, ME, United States of America

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  • Deborah Barlow,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

    Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, United States of America

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  • Karen L. Houseknecht

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: khouseknecht@une.edu

    Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, United States of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6967-9299

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The antipsychotic medication, risperidone, causes global immunosuppression in healthy mice

  • Meghan May, 
  • Megan Beauchemin, 
  • Calvin Vary, 
  • Deborah Barlow, 
  • Karen L. Houseknecht
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  • Published: June 26, 2019
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218937
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