Alisa G Woods, Armand G Ngounou Wetie, Izabela Sokolowska, Stefanie Russell, Jeanne P Ryan, Tanja Maria Michel, Johannes Thome, Costel C Darie
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are increasing in incidence but have an incompletely understood etiology. Tools for uncovering clues to the cause of ASDs and means for diagnoses are valuable to the field. Mass Spectrometry (MS) has been a useful method for evaluating differences between individuals with ASDs versus matched controls. Different biological substances can be evaluated using MS, including urine, blood, saliva, and hair. This technique has been used to evaluate relatively unsupported hypotheses based on introduction of exogenous factors, such as opiate and heavy metal excretion theories of ASDs...
2013: Journal of Molecular Psychiatry