Postmortem brain abnormalities of the glutamate neurotransmitter system in autism
NeurologyPublished 13 November 2001
Amy E. Purcell, Ok Hee Jeon, Andrew W. Zimmerman, Mary E. Blue, Jonathan Pevsner
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Subjects with autism may have specific abnormalities in the AMPA-type glutamate receptors and glutamate transporters in the cerebellum, which may be directly involved in the pathogenesis of the disorder.
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Subjects with autism may have specific abnormalities in the AMPA-type glutamate receptors and glutamate transporters in the cerebellum. These abnormalities may be directly involved in the pathogenesis of the disorder.
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