Reduced GABAA receptors and benzodiazepine binding sites in the anterior cingulate cortex in autism (Autism Research DOI: 10.1002/aur.88);Decreased GABAa receptors and benzodiazepine binding sites in the anterior cingulate cortex in autism

Autism Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 205-219

  Oblak, Adrian ^a   Gibbs, T T ^a   Blatt, G J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Autistic; GABA; Ligand binding; Post mortem

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; MUSCIMOL; BZRAP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEIZURE; DOWN REGULATION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCIMOL; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349313390     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.92     Document Type: Erratum

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