ReviewBiologics : targets & therapy2014
Plasma membrane coenzyme Q: evidence for a role in autism.
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- Testing Green Tea Extract and Ammonium Salts as Stimulants of Physical Performance in a Forced Swimming Rat Experimental Model.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Multikingdom and functional gut microbiota markers for autism spectrum disorder.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- Animal Models of Coenzyme Q Deficiency: Mechanistic and Translational Learnings.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- An Overview of the Main Genetic, Epigenetic and Environmental Factors Involved in Autism Spectrum Disorder Focusing on Synaptic Activity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Analysis of a Sardinian Multiplex Family with Autism Spectrum Disorder Points to Post-Synaptic Density Gene Variants and IdentifiesJournal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Neuroprotective potential of solanesol in intracerebroventricular propionic acid induced experimental model of autism: Insights from behavioral and biochemical evidence.Toxicology reports · 2019Article
- Coenzyme QFrontiers in physiology · 2018Review
- Frederick Loring Crane (1925-2016): Discoverer of coenzyme Q10 and rediscoverer of plastoquinone.Photosynthesis research · 2017Article
- The Deleterious Effects of Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress on Palmitoylation, Membrane Lipid Rafts and Lipid-Based Cellular Signalling: New Drug Targets in Neuroimmune Disorders.Molecular neurobiology · 2016Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe Voltage Dependent Anion Channel (VDAC) is involved in control of autism. Treatments, including coenzyme Q, have had some success on autism control. DATA SOURCES: Correlation of porin redox activity and expression of autism is based on extensive literature, especially studies of antibodies, identification of cytosolic nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide reduced (NADH) dehydrogenase activity in the VDAC, and evidence for extreme sensitivity of the dehydrogenase to a mercurial. Evidence for a coenzyme Q requirement came from extraction and analog inhibition of NADH ferricyanide reductase in the erythrocyte plasma membrane, done in 1994, and reinterpreted when it was identified in VDAC in 2004. The effects of ubiquinol (the QH2 - reduced form of coenzyme Q) in children with autism were studied.
resultsA new role for coenzyme Q in the porin channels has implications on autism. Ubiquinol, the more active form of coenzyme Q, produces favorable response in children with autism. Agents which affected electron transport in porin show parallel effects in autism.
conclusionWe propose a hypothesis that autism is controlled by a coenzyme Q-dependent redox system in the porin channels; this conclusion is based on the effects of agents that positively or negatively affect electron transport and the symptoms of autism. The full understanding of the mechanism of their control needs to be established.
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