Early or late gestational exposure to maternal immune activation alters neurodevelopmental trajectories in mice: an integrated neuroimaging, behavioral, and …

E Guma, P do Couto Bordignon, GA Devenyi… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Exposure to maternal immune activation (MIA) in utero is a risk factor for
neurodevelopmental disorders later in life. The impact of the gestational timing of MIA …

Epigenetic targets in schizophrenia development and therapy

A Wawrzczak-Bargieła, W Bilecki, M Maćkowiak - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is regarded as a neurodevelopmental disorder with its course progressing
throughout life. However, the aetiology and development of schizophrenia are still under …

Maternal immune activation and the development of dopaminergic neurotransmission of the offspring: relevance for schizophrenia and other psychoses

A Aguilar-Valles, B Rodrigue… - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Prenatal infections have been linked to the development of schizophrenia (SCZ) and other
neurodevelopmental disorders in the offspring, and work in animal models indicates that this …

Soluble epoxide hydrolase as a therapeutic target for neuropsychiatric disorders

J Shan, K Hashimoto - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
It has been found that soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH; encoded by the EPHX2 gene) in the
metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) plays a key role in inflammation, which …

Modeling psychotic disorders: Environment x environment interaction

K Murlanova, MV Pletnikov - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is a major psychotic disorder with multifactorial etiology that includes
interactions between genetic vulnerability and environmental risk factors. In addition …

At the crux of maternal immune activation: Viruses, microglia, microbes, and IL‐17A

AM Otero, AM Antonson - Immunological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inflammation during prenatal development can be detrimental to neurodevelopmental
processes, increasing the risk of neuropsychiatric disorders. Prenatal exposure to maternal …

Prefrontal and hippocampal parvalbumin interneurons in animal models for schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

T Santos-Silva, D dos Santos Fabris… - Schizophrenia …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Consistent with postmortem findings in patients, most animal models for
schizophrenia (SCZ) present abnormal levels of parvalbumin (PV), a marker of fast-spiking …

What does immunology have to do with normal brain development and the pathophysiology underlying Tourette syndrome and related neuropsychiatric disorders?

D Martino, I Johnson, JF Leckman - Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Objective: The goal of this article is to review the past decade's literature and provide a
critical commentary on the involvement of immunological mechanisms in normal brain …

Prenatal poly I: C challenge affects behaviors and neurotransmission via elevated neuroinflammation responses in female juvenile rats

Y Su, J Lian, J Hodgson, W Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Exposure to polyriboinosinic-polyribocytidylic acid (Poly I: C) in pregnant rats
has been reported to cause schizophrenia-like behaviors and abnormal neurotransmissions …

Future prospects for epigenetics in autism spectrum disorder

LA Williams, JM LaSalle - Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, 2022 - Springer
Despite decades of investigation into the genetics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a
current consensus in the field persists that ASD risk is too heterogeneous to be diagnosed …