Journal
BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 1693, Issue -, Pages 214-217Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.01.009
Keywords
Autism Spectrum Disorder; Gut-immune-brain; Microbiome; Sex differences
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 DA034185, R01 MH101183, R01 ES025549, F32DA043308]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES [R01ES025549] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH101183] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE [R01DA034185, F32DA043308] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by social behavior deficits, stereotypies, cognitive rigidity, and in some cases severe intellectual impairment and developmental delay. Although ASD is most widely identified by its neurological deficits, gastrointestinal issues are common in ASD. An intimate and complex relationship exists between the gut, the immune system, and the brain, leading to the hypothesis that ASD may be a systems-level disease affecting the gut and immune systems, in addition to the brain. Despite significant advances in understanding the contribution of the gut and immune systems to the etiology of ASD, there is an intriguing commonality among patients that is not well understood: they are predominantly male. Virtually no attention has been given to the potential role of sex specific regulation of gut, peripheral, and central immune function in ASD, despite the 4:1 male-to female bias in this disorder. In this review, we discuss recent revelations regarding the impact of gut immune-brain relationships on social behavior in rodent models and in ASD patients, placing them in the context of known or putative sex specific mechanisms. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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