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- Title
24-hour provoked urine excretion test for heavy metals in children with autism and typically developing controls, a pilot study.
- Authors
Soden, Sarah E; Lowry, Jennifer A; Garrison, Carol B; Wasserman, Gary S
- Abstract
The complementary and alternative medicine practice of prescribing chelators to children with autism is based on the premise that the chronic symptoms of autism can be ameliorated by reducing heavy metal body burden. However, there has not been definitive evidence, published to date, to support the assertion that children with autism are at increased risk of an excess chelatable body burden of heavy metals. The oral chelator meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) can be used diagnostically to mobilize heavy metals from extravascular pools, enhancing the identification of individuals who have a chelatable body burden.
- Publication
Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2007, Vol 45, Issue 5, p476
- ISSN
1556-3650
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/15563650701338195