Increased glutamate and homocysteine and decreased glutamine levels in autism: A review and strategies for future studies of amino acids in autism

Disease Markers

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 281-286

  Ghanizadeh, Ahmad ^a,b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CITRULLINE; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HOMOCYSTEINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; SERINE; TAURINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID URINE LEVEL; AUTISM; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIET; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOM;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; TAURINE;

EID: 84884845794     PISSN: 02780240     EISSN: 18758630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/536521     Document Type: Review

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