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Locus ceruleus neurons in people with autism contain no histochemically-detectable mercury

Exposure to environmental mercury has been proposed to play a part in autism. Mercury is selectively taken up by the human locus ceruleus, a region of the brain that has been implicated in autism. We therefore looked for the presence of mercury in the locus ceruleus of people who had autism, using t...

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Autores principales: Pamphlett, Roger, Kum Jew, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26613607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10534-015-9898-9