date:Jan 09, 2014
havioural symptoms associated with autism in the offspring.
In the new study, Professor Mazmanian, Professor Patterson and their colleagues found that the autistic offspring of immune-activated pregnant mice also exhibited GI abnormalities. In particular, the GI tracts of autistic-like mice were leaky, which means that they allowed material to pass through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream. This characteristic, known as intestinal permeability, has been reported in some autistic ind