Effects of the enteric bacterial metabolic product propionic acid on object-directed behavior, social behavior, cognition, and neuroinflammation in adolescent rats: Relevance to autism spectrum disorder

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-54

  MacFabe, Derrick F ^a   Cain, Nathan E ^a   Boon, Francis ^a   Ossenkopp, Klaus Peter ^a   Cain, Donald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal model; ASD; CD68; GFAP; Restricted interests; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

PROPIONIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AUTISM; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICROGLIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MAZE LEARNING; MICROGLIA; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78049463483     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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