Autism spectrum disorders - Exogenous protein insult

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 545-549

  Dochniak, Michael J ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CROSS REACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME REGULATION; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLERGENS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; HEVEA; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INCIDENCE; LATEX; LYMPHOCYTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RUBBER; TIME FACTORS;

HEVEA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 34447312209     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.01.060     Document Type: Article

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