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Relationships among body mass, brain size, gut length, and blood tryptophan and serotonin in young wild-type mice.
BMC physiology - 25 Mar 2009
Albay Ricardo, Chen Angela, Anderson George M, Tatevosyan Maggie, Janusonis Skirmantas
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BACKGROUND: The blood hyperserotonemia of autism is one of the most consistent biological findings in autism research, but its causes remain unclear. A major difficulty in understanding this phenomenon is the lack of information on fundamental interactions among the developing brain, gut, and blood in the mammalian body. We therefore investigated relationships among the body mass, the brain mass, the volume of...
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