Are retinoids potential therapeutic agents in disorders of social cognition including autism?

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1529-1536

  Ebstein, Richard P ^a,b   Mankuta, David ^b   Yirmiya, Nurit ^b   Malavasi, Fabio ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

All trans retinoic acid (ATRA); Autism spectrum disorder (ASD); CD38; Oxytocin; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYL CYCLASE; CD38 ANTIGEN; OXYTOCIN; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID; RETINOL;

AMNESIA; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; AUTISM; BLOOD CELL; CELL SURFACE; DENDRITE; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; MENTAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR GENE; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOPATHY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD38; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; HUMANS; OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RETINOIDS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79957550365     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.05.004     Document Type: Review

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