date:Jan 09, 2014
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To our knowledge, this is the first report of an animal model for autism with comorbid GI dysfunction, said Elaine Hsia, a senior research fellow at Caltech and first author on the study.
Mice treated with probiotics
To see whether these GI symptoms actually influenced the autism-like behaviours, the researchers treated the mice with Bacteroides fragilis (B. fragilis), a bacterium that has been used as an experimental probiotic therapy in animal models of GI disorders. The research