Review of animal models for autism: Implication of thyroid hormone

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Sadamatsu, Miyuki ^a   Kanai, Hirohiko ^a   Xu, Xiaobin ^b   Liu, Ying ^b   Kato, Nobumasa ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal model; Autism; Hypothyroidism; Rat; Thalidomide

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; IBOTENIC ACID; NEUROMODULIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; PROTEIN C FOS; REELIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; THALIDOMIDE; THYROID HORMONE; VALPROIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; ATAXIA; AUTISM; BIRTH DEFECT; BORNA DISEASE VIRUS; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; CHEMICAL TERATOGENESIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPENDYMA CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY DISORDER; MONKEY; MOUSE STRAIN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUBICULUM; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RUBELLA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 33646837648     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2006.00094.x     Document Type: Review

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