Maternal infection and immune involvement in autism
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Maternal infection and immune involvement in autism.
Recent studies have highlighted a connection between infection during pregnancy and the increased risk of autism in the offspring. Parallel studies of cerebral spinal fluid, blood and postmortem brains reveal an ongoing, hyper-responsive inflammatory-like state in many young as well as adult autism subjects. There are also indications of gastrointestinal problems in at least a subset of autisti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Molecular Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1471-4914
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2011.03.001