Autism and oxytocin: New developments in translational approaches to therapeutics

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 250-257

  Green, Joshua J ^a   Hollander, Eric ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine vasopressin; ASD; Autism; Epigenetic; Oxytocin; Repetitive behavior; Social behavior; Social cognition; Social functioning; Therapeutics; Translational model

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; EPIGENETICS; GENE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR GENE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; AUTISTIC DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMANS; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954944264     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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