
Biometals in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Description
Key Features
- Reviews the role of trace metals in brain development
- Summarizes research linking trace metals and autism
- Explores heterogenous phenotypes as a factor of genetic and non-genetic factors
- Includes animal and human stem research
- Contains many useful diagrams, tables and flow charts
- Proposes future therapies based on biometal homeostasis
Readership
Basic and clinical researchers, neuroscientists, neurologists, neurology and medical trainees, and advanced neuroscience students
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Metallomics: The Science of Biometals
2. Measuring Biometals
3. The history of metals in autism spectrum disorders
4. Essential trace metals and their function in brain development
5. Non-essential metals and their brain pathology
6. Biometals and nutrition in Autism Spectrum Disorders
7. Linking trace metal abnormalities to Autism - insights from epidemiological studies
8. The specific role of zinc in Autism Spectrum Disorder
9. Animal models for trace metal abnormalities - links to Autism
10. Animal models for Autism - links to biometals abnormalities
11. Human stem cell models linking biometals abnormalities and Autism
12. Extracerebral biometals in Autism Spectrum Disorders: the gut-brain axis
13. Biometal homeostasis as therapeutic strategy in Autism Spectrum Disorders
14. Future perspectives: Autism, a disorder of biometal imbalance?
Product details
- No. of pages: 222
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: July 8, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128211328
- eBook ISBN: 9780128211335
About the Author
Andreas Grabrucker
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