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Mothers of Autistic Children: Lower Plasma Levels of Oxytocin and Arg-Vasopressin and a Higher Level of Testosterone

BACKGROUND: Autism is a pervasive neurodevelopmental disorder,thought to be caused by a combination of genetic heritability and environmental risk factors. Some autistic-like traits have been reported in mothers of autistic children. We hypothesized that dysregulation of oxytocin (OXT), Arg-vasopres...

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Autores principales: Xu, Xin-Jie, Shou, Xiao-Jing, Li, Jin, Jia, Mei-Xiang, Zhang, Ji-Shui, Guo, Yan, Wei, Qing-Yun, Zhang, Xiu-Ting, Han, Song-Ping, Zhang, Rong, Han, Ji-Sheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24086383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074849