Tipping the balance of autism risk: Potential mechanisms linking pesticides and Autism

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 944-951

  Shelton, Janie F ^a   Hertz Picciotto, Irva ^a   Pessah, Isaac N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Carbamate; Gene environment interaction; Immune; Mitochondria; Neuroexcitation; Organochlorine; Organophosphate; Oxidative stress; Pesticide; Pyrethroid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; CARBAMIC ACID; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PYRETHRIN; THIOCYANATE; TRIAZINE; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

AGRICULTURE; AUTISM; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXCITATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PESTICIDES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864120951     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104553     Document Type: Review

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