Excess dietary iron is the root cause for increase in childhood Autism and allergies

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 220-222

  Padhye, Umesh ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMMONIA; CHELATING AGENT; HISTAMINE; IRON; IRON CHELATE; METHYLPHENIDATE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ALLERGY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN; CANCER; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; EAR INFECTION; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HALLERVORDEN SPATZ DISEASE; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; IRON INTAKE; IRON METABOLISM; IRON STORAGE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER CANCER; MENTAL DISEASE; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE DEGENERATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 0041621545     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(03)00126-9     Document Type: Article

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