Evaluation of whole blood zinc and copper levels in children with autism spectrum disorder

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 887-890

  Crăciun, Elena Cristina ^a   Bjørklund, Geir ^b   Tinkov, Alexey A ^c,d,e   Urbina, Mauricio A ^f,g   Skalny, Anatoly V ^d,e   Rad, Florina ^h   Dronca, Eleonora ^a  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b Department of Research   (Norway)

^c ORENBURG STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d ORENBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e All Russia Science Research Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^h CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Autism; Children; Copper; Whole blood; Zinc

Indexed keywords

COPPER; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA SECTOR FIELD MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UPREGULATION; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COPPER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

EID: 84963995196     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-016-9823-0     Document Type: Article

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