White matter injury and autistic-like behavior predominantly affecting male rat offspring exposed to group B streptococcal maternal inflammation

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 504-515

  Bergeron, J D L ^a   Deslauriers, J ^a   Grignon, S ^a   Fortier, L C ^a   Lepage, M ^a   Stroh, T ^b   Poyart, C ^c,d,e   Sebire G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Autism; Dysmyelination; Gestational inflammation; Group B streptococcus

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTERNAL CAPSULE; FEMALE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SENSORY GATING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; WHITE MATTER INJURY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DECIDUA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENDER; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PARIETAL CORTEX; PLACENTA; PREGNANT WOMAN; SOCIAL DISABILITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 84890536282     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: 14219859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000355656     Document Type: Article

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