Back

Mitochondrial respiratory activity and DNA damage in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in borderline personality disorder

Behnke, A.; Rappel, M.; Ramo-Fernandez, L.; Mavioglu, R. N.; Weber, B.; Neuner, F.; Bisle, E. A.; Mack, M.; Radermacher, P.; Witt, S.; Schmahl, C.; Karabatsiakis, A.; Kolassa, I.-T.

2025-01-31 psychiatry and clinical psychology
10.1101/2025.01.29.25321066 medRxiv
Show abstract

Alterations in the central and peripheral energy metabolism are increasingly recognized as key pathophysiological processes in various psychiatric disorders. This case-control study investigates mitochondrial energy production and oxidative DNA damage in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). We compared mitochondrial respiration, density, and DNA damage in peripheral blood mononuclear cells between women with acute BPD, remitted BPD, and healthy controls (n = 32, 15, 29), matched for age and BMI. Acute BPD was characterized by reduced and less efficient mitochondrial ATP production compared to both remitted BPD and controls (e.g., coupling efficiency: rx = -0.36 and -0.35, padjs < .037). Decreased mitochondrial activity was closely associated with greater DNA damage (e.g., coupling efficiency: rS = -0.57, p < .001), although DNA damage did not differ between diagnostic groups. Our findings suggest mitochondrial energy production processes as promising and sensitive biomarkers for acute disorder severity and clinical remission in BPD.

Published in Psychological Medicine (predicted rank #10) · training set

Matching journals

The top 2 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.

50% of probability mass above

"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.