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Mouse Behavioral Assays Relevant to the Symptoms of Autism*
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While the cause of autism remains unknown, the high concordance between monozygotic twins supports a strong genetic component. The importance of genetic factors in autism encourages the development of mutant mouse models, to advance our understanding of biological mechanisms underlying autistic behaviors. Mouse models of human neuropsychiatric diseases are designed to optimize (i) face validity (resemblance to the human symptoms) (ii) construct validity (similarity to the underlying causes of the disease) and (iii) predictive validity (expected responses to treatments that are effective in the human disease). There is a growing need for mouse behavioral tasks with all three types of validity, to define robust phenotypes in mouse models of autism. Ideal mouse models will incorporate analogies to the three diagnostic symptoms of autism: abnormal social interactions, deficits in communication and high levels of repetitive behaviors. Social approach is tested in an automated three chambered apparatus that offers the subject a choice between spending time with another mouse, with a novel object, or remaining in an empty familiar environment. Reciprocal social interaction is scored from videotapes of interactions between pairs of unfamiliar mice. Communication is evaluated by measuring emission and responses to vocalizations and olfactory cues. Repetitive behaviors are scored for measures of grooming, jumping, or stereotyped sniffing of one location or object. Insistence on sameness is modeled by scoring a change in habit, for example, reversal of the spatial location of a reinforcer in the Morris water maze or T‐maze. Associated features of autism, for example, mouse phenotypes relevant to anxiety, seizures, sleep disturbances and sensory hypersensitivity, may be useful to include in a mouse model that meets some of the core diagnostic criteria. Applications of these assays include (i) behavioral phenotyping of transgenic and knockout mice with mutations in genes relevant to autism; (ii) characterization of inbred strains of mice; (iii) evaluation of environmental toxins; (iv) comparison of behavioral phenotypes with genetic factors, such as unusual expression patterns of genes or unusual single nucleotide polymorphisms; and (v) evaluation of proposed therapeutics for the treatment of autism.
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ResultInfluentialKas, M. J., Glennon, J. C., Buitelaar, J., Ey, E., Biemans, B., Crawley, J., Ring, R. H., Lajonchere, C., Esclassan, F., Talpos, J., et al. (2014) · Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1007/s00213-013-3268-5 · Cited by 132
“Olfactory signals are also very ethologically relevant proxies for communicative abilities in rodent models of ASD (Crawley 2007).”
BackgroundSelf-citationSilverman, J. L., Thurm, A. E., Ethridge, S. B., Soller, M. M., Petkova, S. P., Abel, T. G., Bauman, M. D., Brodkin, E. S., Harony‐Nicolas, H., Wöhr, M., et al. (2022) · Genes Brain & Behavior · doi:10.1111/gbb.12803 · Cited by 133
Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents
Keysers, C., Knapska, E., Moita, M. A. P., & Gazzola, V. (2022) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.05.005 · Cited by 130
“[165,172] that lead to considerable strain differences in fear contagion [146].”
Autistic-Like Syndrome in Mu Opioid Receptor Null Mice is Relieved by Facilitated mGluR4 Activity
Becker, J. A. J., Clesse, D., Spiegelhalter, C., Schwab, Y., Merrer, J. L., & Kieffer, B. L. (2014) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/npp.2014.59 · Cited by 128
“…high homology between mouse and human genomes and feasibility of genetic modifications in mice, interest in developing genetic mouse models of ASDs has raised recently, together with the development of dedicated behavioral assessment (Buxbaum et al, 2012; Crawley, 2007; Robertson and Feng, 2011).”
BackgroundHiramoto, T., Kang, G., Suzuki, G., Satoh, Y., Kucherlapati, R., Watanabe, Y., & Hiroi, N. (2011) · Human Molecular Genetics · doi:10.1093/hmg/ddr404 · Cited by 129
“Although any attempt to model ASD in animals is at best a proxy for the real events, a number of behavioral paradigms to model symptomatic elements have validity (27).”
BackgroundCreatine Transporter (CrT; Slc6a8) Knockout Mice as a Model of Human CrT Deficiency
Skelton, M. R., Schaefer, T. L., Graham, D. L., deGrauw, T. J., Clark, J. F., Williams, M. T., & Vorhees, C. V. (2011) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016187 · Cited by 120
“[30].”
Deletion of Glutamate Delta-1 Receptor in Mouse Leads to Aberrant Emotional and Social Behaviors
Yadav, R., Gupta, S. C., Hillman, B. G., Bhatt, J. M., Stairs, D. J., & Dravid, S. M. (2012) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032969 · Cited by 129
Criteria for validating mouse models of psychiatric diseases
Chadman, K. K., Yang, M., & Crawley, J. N. (2008) · American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics · doi:10.1002/ajmg.b.30777 · Cited by 131
“Behavioral Phenotyping of Transgenic and Knockout Mice’’ [Crawley, 2007b], Current Protocols in Neuroscience, and in the many excellent review articles cited above.”
BackgroundSelf-citationPobbe, R. L. H., Pearson, B. L., Defensor, E. B., Bolivar, V. J., Blanchard, D. C., & Blanchard, R. J. (2010) · Behavioural Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2010.06.025 · Cited by 124
“Therefore, suitable animal models for ASD require a relationship to the types of social deficits that are considered the core symptoms of such disorder, including impairments in social interaction and deficiencies in other functional domains [12,31,33].”
BackgroundMice with reduced NMDA receptor expression: more consistent with autism than schizophrenia?
Gandal, M. J., Anderson, R. L., Billingslea, E. N., Carlson, G. C., Roberts, T. P. L., & Siegel, S. J. (2012) · Genes Brain & Behavior · doi:10.1111/j.1601-183x.2012.00816.x · Cited by 122
“744 Genes, Brain and Behavior (2012) 11: 740–750 As such, adult NR1neo−/− mice show strong face validity for autism-like phenotypes (Crawley, 2007).”
BackgroundAutomated test of behavioral flexibility in mice using a behavioral sequencing task in IntelliCage
Endo, T., Maekawa, F., Võikar, V., Haijima, A., Uemura, Y., Zhang, Y., Miyazaki, W., Suyama, S., Shimazaki, K., Wolfer, D. P., et al. (2011) · Behavioural Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.037 · Cited by 119
Monoamine oxidase A and A/B knockout mice display autistic-like features
Bortolato, M., Godar, S. C., Alzghoul, L., Zhang, J., Darling, R. D., Simpson, K. L., Bini, V., Chen, K., Wellman, C. L., Lin, R. C. S., et al. (2012) · The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1017/s1461145712000715 · Cited by 124
“In the beam-walking assay (Crawley, 2007), both genotypes exhibited a typical crawling posture (Salichon et al.”
General and social anxiety in the BTBR T+ tf/J mouse strain
Pobbe, R. L. H., Defensor, E. B., Pearson, B. L., Bolivar, V. J., Blanchard, D. C., & Blanchard, R. J. (2010) · Behavioural Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2010.08.039 · Cited by 121
“Therefore, suitable animal models for ASD require a relationship to the types of behavioral deficits that are considered the core symptoms of such disorder, including impairments in social interaction and deficiencies in other functional domains [14,40,55].”
BackgroundRETRACTED: Enhanced Polyubiquitination of Shank3 and NMDA Receptor in a Mouse Model of Autism
Bangash, M. A., Park, J. M., Melnikova, T., Wang, D., Jeon, S. K., Lee, D., Syeda, S. K., Kim, J., Kouser, M., Schwartz, J. L., et al. (2011) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2011.03.052 · Cited by 116
RetractedArakawa, H., Arakawa, K., & Terrence Deak, B. (2010) · Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.10.013 · Cited by 114
Hou, Q.-L., Wang, Y., Li, Y., Chen, D., Yang, F., & Wang, S. (2018) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00182 · Cited by 115
“Autistic individuals often maintain rigid habits and frequently show a strong insistence on sameness and become distraught by a change in routine (Crawley, 2007).”
BackgroundGenetic manipulation of STEP reverses behavioral abnormalities in a fragile X syndrome mouse model
Goebel‐Goody, S. M., Wilson‐Wallis, E. D., Royston, S., Tagliatela, S. M., Naegele, J. R., & Lombroso, P. J. (2012) · Genes, Brain and Behavior · doi:10.1111/j.1601-183x.2012.00781.x · Cited by 108
“We evaluated sociability using a three-chambered social choice task (Crawley 2007; Moy et al. 2009).”
MethodLe Belle, J. E., Sperry, J., Ngo, A., Ghochani, Y., Laks, D. R., López-Aranda, M., Silva, A. J., & Kornblum, H. I. (2014) · Stem Cell Reports · doi:10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.09.004 · Cited by 105
“Ultrasonic vocalization, three-chamber social interaction, and elevated plus maze tests were performed on adult mice according to the methods of Crawley (2007).”
MethodRicceri, L., Filippis, B. D., & Laviola, G. (2008) · Behavioural Pharmacology · doi:10.1097/fbp.0b013e32830c3645 · Cited by 107
“In addition, a robust rodent model can have translational value in offering preclinical surrogate markers to evaluate treatment efficacy (Crawley, 2007).”
BackgroundAuditory Processing in Fragile X Syndrome
Rotschafer, S. E., & Razak, K. A. (2014) · Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fncel.2014.00019 · Cited by 116
“Repetitive behaviors have been demonstrated in Fmr1 KO mice using marble burying tasks (Crawley, 2004, 2007).”
MethodGlutamate receptor dysfunction and drug targets across models of autism spectrum disorders
Carlson, G. C. (2012) · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.pbb.2011.02.003 · Cited by 102
“…of ASD is determined from the presence of core deficits in 1) communication, 2) social, and 3) repetitive behavior; with changes in social behavior and inappropriate repetitive activity being the most easily measured in rodent models {Korff, 2006 #2312; Crawley, 2007 #2314; Lewis, 2007 #2315}.”
BackgroundHumann, J., Mann, B., Gao, G., Moresco, P., Ramahi, J., Loh, L. N., Farr, A., Hu, Y., Durick-Eder, K., Fillon, S. A., et al. (2016) · Cell Host & Microbe · doi:10.1016/j.chom.2016.02.009 · Cited by 100
“Behavioral testing Working memory of WT CW treated mice was tested as previously described using three assays (Bevins and Besheer, 2006; Crawley, 2007): novel object recognition, spatial recognition and delayed non-matched to position tests.”
Abnormal Cerebellar Development in Autism Spectrum Disorders
van der Heijden, M. E., Gill, J. S., & Sillitoe, R. V. (2021) · Developmental Neuroscience · doi:10.1159/000515189 · Cited by 105
Mecp2 organizes juvenile social behavior in a sex-specific manner
Kurian, J. R., Bychowski, M. E., Forbes-Lorman, R. M., Auger, C. J., & Auger, A. P. (2008) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1345-08.2008 · Cited by 100
“Sociability was measured with an adaptation of the social approach task (Crawley, 2004, 2007).”
MethodCastro, K., Baronio, D., Perry, I. D. S., Riesgo, R. D. S., & Gottfried, C. (2016) · Nutritional Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/1028415x.2015.1133029 · Cited by 103
Mouse models of frontotemporal dementia
Roberson, E. D. (2012) · Annals of Neurology · doi:10.1002/ana.23722 · Cited by 103
“Work on autism, which bears some similarities to FTD in its social and behavioral features, has demonstrated the utility of mouse models for studying disorders with these features.(110) Here we highlight a few behavioral domains that have not only a high degree of similarity with the symptoms of FTD, but also a common…”
BackgroundMaternal immune activation promotes hippocampal kindling epileptogenesis in mice
Pineda, E., Shin, D. H., You, S. J., Auvin, S., Sankar, R., & Mazarati, A. M. (2013) · Annals of Neurology · doi:10.1002/ana.23898 · Cited by 100
“At postnatal day 40 (P40), sociability was examined as described.(21,22) The apparatus (Noldus, Leesburg, VA) was a 60 3 40cm Plexiglas box divided into 3 connected chambers.”
MethodSocial dysfunction after pediatric traumatic brain injury: A translational perspective
Ryan, N. P., Catroppa, C., Godfrey, C., Noble‐Haeusslein, L. J., Shultz, S. R., O'Brien, T. J., Anderson, V. A., & Semple, B. D. (2016) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.02.020 · Cited by 102
“…social behaviors, and several etiologically-relevant assays with good face validity (i.e. resemblance to the human phenomenology) have been developed to measure different aspects of social behavior in mice (Crawley, 2007; Silverman et al., 2010; Terranova and Laviola, 2005) (see Figure 3).”
BackgroundFound in translation: Understanding the biology and behavior of experimental traumatic brain injury
Bondi, C. O., Semple, B. D., Noble‐Haeusslein, L. J., Osier, N. D., Carlson, S. W., Dixon, C. E., Giza, C. C., & Kline, A. E. (2014) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.12.004 · Cited by 94
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Translating human deficits into mouse behavior
Pasciuto, E., Borrie, S. C., Kanellopoulos, A. K., Santos, A. R. S., Cappuyns, E., D’Andrea, L., Pacini, L., & Bagni, C. (2015) · Neurobiology of Learning and Memory · doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2015.07.013 · Cited by 103
Deficits in Social Behavior Emerge during Development after Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice
Semple, B. D., Canchola, S. A., & Noble‐Haeusslein, L. J. (2012) · Journal of Neurotrauma · doi:10.1089/neu.2012.2595 · Cited by 97
“quite sensitive to numerous known and unknown factors, including housing and experimental conditions, handling, previous life experiences, and social isolation.(38,41,53) As such, the evaluation of social parameters in experimental TBI studies requires”
Segal‐Gavish, H., Karvat, G., Barak, N., Barzilay, R., Ganz, J., Edry, L., Aharony, I., Offen, D., & Kimchi, T. (2015) · Autism Research · doi:10.1002/aur.1530 · Cited by 96
“, & Crawley, J.N. (2011). Reduced scent marking and ultrasonic vocalizations in the BTBR t1tf/J mouse model of autism. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 10, 35– 43. doi:10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00582.x W€ ohr, M., & Scattoni, M. L. (2013). Behavioural methods used in rodent models of autism spectrum disorders: Current standa…”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialAutism spectrum and obsessive–compulsive disorders: OC behaviors, phenotypes and genetics
Jacob, S., Landeros‐Weisenberger, A., & Leckman, J. F. (2009) · Autism Research · doi:10.1002/aur.108 · Cited by 92
“Behavioral genetic approaches related to ASD have examined manipulations on a range of candidate genes [Moy & Nadler, 2008] and have methods to study ‘‘IS’’ or change in habit through reversal learning tasks [Crawley, 2007].”
MethodGut microbiota regulates key modulators of social behavior
Parashar, A., & Udayabanu, M. (2016) · European Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.11.002 · Cited by 88
“Now, keeping in view these somewhat contradicting results and the behavioral deficits that are the hallmarks of various neurodevelopmental disorders (Crawley, 2007), emergence of GM has opened new doors for identifying new underlying mechanisms that could potentially lead to novel and more effective therapies to comba…”
ResultRyan, B. C., Young, N. B., Moy, S. S., & Crawley, J. N. (2008) · Behavioural Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2008.06.002 · Cited by 95
“The STFP task has also been identified as an assay with potential face validity to the symptoms of autism [16,39].”
BackgroundSelf-citationDoll, C. A., & Broadie, K. S. (2014) · Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fncel.2014.00030 · Cited by 86
“Nevertheless, ASD modeling is made difficult by the underlying genetic diversity, and this difficulty is compounded by the array of symptoms described in human conditions and debates about appropriate genetic models (Crawley, 2007).”
BackgroundBraun, A. E., Carpentier, P. A., Babineau, B. A., Narayan, A. R., Kielhold, M. L., Moon, H. M., Shankar, A., Su, J., Saravanapandian, V., Haditsch, U., et al. (2019) · eNeuro · doi:10.1523/eneuro.0358-19.2019 · Cited by 86
“Sociability and social memory were tested in an adaptation of the three-chamber test (Crawley, 2007).”
Method
Metadata
- Authors
- Crawley, J. N.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Crawley, Jacqueline N.
- Venue
- Brain Pathology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-10
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 448-459
- ISSN
- 1015-6305 (ISSN-L)
- 1750-3639
- PMC
- PMC8095652
- OpenAlex
- W2076566560
- Cited by
- 541
- References
- 216
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- FWCI
- 1.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Brain Pathology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5u54mh066418-05)
- U.S. Public Health Service (NICHD P30)
- National Institute of Mental Health (U54-MH066418, MH66418)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, mouse models of autism, behavioral assays, social interaction, communication difficulties, repetitive behavior, insistence on sameness, reciprocal social interaction, vocalizations, olfactory cues, grooming, anxiety, seizures, sleep disorders, sensory hypersensitivity, phenotyping, inbred mouse strains, environmental toxins
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Autistic Disorder, Behavior, Animal, Biological Assay, Disease Models, Animal, Humans, Mice, Transgenic, Phenotype, Social Behavior Disorders, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mice
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