Understanding the roles of glutamine synthetase, glutaminase, and glutamate decarboxylase autoantibodies in imbalanced excitatory/inhibitory neurotransmission as etiological mechanisms of autism.
Najat O HamedLaila Al-AyadhiMohamed A OsmanAbdalla O ElkhawadHanan QasemMajida Al-MarshoudNada M MerghaniAfaf El-AnsaryPublished in: Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences (2018)
The obtained data indicate that GS and GLS1 are promising indicators of a neuronal excitation and inhibition system imbalance and that combined measured parameters are good predictive biomarkers of autism.