An exploration of the associations of pregnancy and perinatal features with cytokines and tryptophan/kynurenine metabolism in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 301-318

  Oades, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADHD; Birth; Cytokine; Kynurenine; Pregnancy; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYKYNURENINE; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ATOMOXETINE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 16; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; KYNURENIC ACID; KYNURENINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; PROTEIN S100B; TRYPTOPHAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; PATERNAL SMOKING; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CYTOKINES; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KYNURENINE; MALE; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SMOKING; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 81555195371     PISSN: 18666116     EISSN: 18666647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12402-011-0062-2     Document Type: Article

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