Maternal antibodies from mothers of children with autism alter brain growth and social behavior development in the rhesus monkey

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bauman, M D ^a,b,c   Iosif, A M ^a   Ashwood, P ^a   Braunschweig, D ^d   Lee, A ^a,c   Schumann, C M ^a,c   Van De Water, J ^d   Amaral, D G ^a,b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; ASD; Autoantibody; Nonhuman primate

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA; PROGENY; RHESUS MONKEY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER; AGE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; PREGNANCY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROIMAGING; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84880166349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2013.47     Document Type: Article

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