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Serum and cerebrospinal fluid immune mediators in children with autistic disorder: a longitudinal study

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Title
Serum and cerebrospinal fluid immune mediators in children with autistic disorder: a longitudinal study
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Molecular Autism, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13229-016-0115-7
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Carlos A. Pardo, Cristan A. Farmer, Audrey Thurm, Fatma M. Shebl, Jorjetta Ilieva, Simran Kalra, Susan Swedo

Abstract

The causes of autism likely involve genetic and environmental factors that influence neurobiological changes and the neurological and behavioral features of the disorder. Immune factors and inflammation are hypothesized pathogenic influences, but have not been examined longitudinally. In a cohort of 104 participants with autism, we performed an assessment of immune mediators such as cytokines, chemokines, or growth factors in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (n = 67) to determine potential influences of such mediators in autism. As compared with 54 typically developing controls, we found no evidence of differences in the blood profile of immune mediators supportive of active systemic inflammation mechanisms in participants with autism. Some modulators of immune function (e.g., EGF and soluble CD40 ligand) were increased in the autism group; however, no evidence of group differences in traditional markers of active inflammation (e.g., IL-6, TNFα, IL-1β) were observed in the serum. Further, within-subject stability (measured by estimated intraclass correlations) of most analytes was low, indicating that a single measurement is not a reliable prospective indicator of concentration for most analytes. Additionally, in participants with autism, there was little correspondence between the blood and CSF profiles of cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors, suggesting that peripheral markers may not optimally reflect the immune status of the central nervous system. Although the relatively high fraction of intrathecal production of selected chemokines involved in monocyte/microglia function may suggest a possible relationship with the homeostatic role of microglia, control data are needed for further interpretation of its relevance in autism. These longitudinal observations fail to provide support for the hypothesized role of disturbances in the expression of circulating cytokines and chemokines as an indicator of systemic inflammation in autism. ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT00298246.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 85 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 16%
Student > Bachelor 11 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 12%
Researcher 8 9%
Other 5 6%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 26 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 16 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 9%
Psychology 7 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 6%
Other 10 12%
Unknown 30 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 October 2019.
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#1,503,470
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#4
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