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Serum thyroid-stimulating hormone and interleukin-8 levels in boys with autism spectrum disorder

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Neuroinflammation, June 2017
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Title
Serum thyroid-stimulating hormone and interleukin-8 levels in boys with autism spectrum disorder
Published in
Journal of Neuroinflammation, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12974-017-0888-4
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Sarika Singh, Umar Yazdani, Bharathi Gadad, Sayed Zaman, Linda S. Hynan, Nichole Roatch, Claire Schutte, C. Nathan Marti, Laura Hewitson, Dwight C. German

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects approximately 1 in 68 children in the USA. An ASD blood biomarker may enable early diagnosis and/or identification of new therapeutic targets. Serum samples from ASD and typically developing (TD) boys (n = 30/group) were screened for differences in 110 proteins using a multiplex immunoassay. Eleven proteins were found that together could confirm ASD with modest accuracy using multiple training and test sets. Two of the 11 proteins identified here were further tested using a different detection platform and with a larger sample of ASD and TD boys. The two proteins, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and interleukin-8 (IL-8), have been previously identified as putative biomarkers for ASD. TSH levels were significantly lower in ASD boys, whereas IL-8 levels were significantly elevated. The diagnostic accuracy for ASD based upon TSH or IL-8 levels alone varied from 74 to 76%, but using both proteins together, the diagnostic accuracy increased to 82%. In addition, TSH levels were negatively correlated with the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule subdomain scores. These data suggest that a panel of proteins may be useful as a putative blood biomarker for ASD.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 17%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Researcher 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 23 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 13 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 10%
Neuroscience 6 8%
Social Sciences 4 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 4%
Other 14 19%
Unknown 25 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 175. 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 27 January 2023.
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