[Various electrical indices of schizophrenic patients' erythrocytes].

The cataphoretic mobility of schizophrenics blood erythrocytes, and the effect of the patients' blood plasma on the electric conductivity of artificial lipid bilayers were studied. Changes of the cataphoretic mobility were found to depend on the type, gravity, and progress of the disease. The data obtained pointed to a change of the sorption capacity of the erythrocyte membranes. The blood plasma of the schizophrenic patients lowered the resistance of the artificial membrane bilayers. These findings are interpreted from the standpoint of the presence of a biologically active factor in the plasma that produces the membranotropic effect.