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The maternal interleukin-17a pathway in mice promotes autism-like phenotypes in offspring
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A T cell cause for autism?: The causes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are complex and not entirely clear. Alterations in the mother's immune system during pregnancy, especially during key early periods of fetal neurodevelopment, may play a role. Choi et al. provided infectious or inflammatory stimuli to pregnant mice, which resulted in of spring exhibiting behaviors reminiscent of ASD (see the Perspective by Estes and McAllister). A subset of T helper cells that make the cytokine interleukin-17a in the mothers caused cortical defects and associated ASD behaviors in offspring. Therapeutic targeting of interleukin-17a during gestation reduced ASD symptoms in offspring. Science , this issue p. 933 ; see also p. 919
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“The Choi and colleagues [132, 81] MIA ASD mouse model study showed that the same fetal MIA perturbation of littermates causes patches of focal cortical dysplasia that have marked heterogeneity, analogous to heterogeneity found in cortex in unrelated individual ASD cases postmortem [34] (Fig. 7).”
From The ASD Living Biology: from cell proliferation to clinical phenotype (2019) · cites this paper as [132]
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“MIA can also induce more complex cortical phenotypes such as focal cortical dysplasia [81, 132], similar to those found in ASD [34] (Fig. 7).”
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“Also, cytoarchitecture heterogeneity is seen that is characteristic of ASD cases [34, 132].”
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“treatment of the anti-IL-17 antibody 2 days after MIA induction saw rescue of some phenotypes, such as USV calls and marble burying, but not others, including interaction deficits”
From The Role of the Immune System in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2017) · cites this paper as Choi et al, 2016
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“Given that IL-23 induces IL-17 and the importance of IL-17 for inducing the MIA model of autism (Choi et al, 2016)”
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“blocking key pathways prevents MIA-induced neural and behavioral abnormalities in ASD model systems.32”
From Maternal immune activation dysregulation of the fetal brain transcriptome and relevance to the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder (2018) · cites this paper as [32]
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“MIA alters proliferation of cortical neural progenitor cells, laminar allocation of neurons, increased cortical thickness, increased cell density and patches of cortical dysplasia.32, 38, 42”
From Maternal immune activation dysregulation of the fetal brain transcriptome and relevance to the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder (2018) · cites this paper as [32]
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“Increased systemic IL-17 during pregnancy leads to development of autism-like behaviors in pup offspring (Choi et al., 2016), which can also be regulated by maternal microbiota (Kim et al., 2017).”
From The IL-17 Family of Cytokines in Health and Disease (2019) · cites this paper as Choi et al., 2016
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“The implicated cytokine pathways include, and not limited to, IL-5, IL-15, IL-17, IL-17a, IL-10, IL-1b, TNF-α, TGF-β1 and IFNγ [12, 18, 65, 66].”
From Gut microbiota changes in children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review (2020) · cites this paper as [66]
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“Alterations of the host immune responses by gut microbiota are closely linked to ASD-related symptoms.”
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“A number of biomarkers that could connect to microbial profiles also have been identified in ASD, including alterations in serotonin levels, IL1β, and IL6.35, 44, 45, 46, 47”
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“Abnormal behaviors have also been reported in the absence of microbiota, including decreased anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus maze21.”
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“Alleviated anxiety-like behavior has been previously linked to the lack of microbiota21.”
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- Authors
- Choi, G. B., Yim, Y. S., Wong, H., Kim, S., Kim, H., Kim, S. V., Hoeffer, C. A., Littman, D. R., & Huh, J. R.
- Affiliations
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research (US)
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Choi, Gloria B.
- Yim, Yeong S.
- Wong, Helen
- Hoeffer, Charles A.
- Littman, Dan R.
- Huh, Jun R.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2016-02-26
- Volume
- 351
- Issue
- 6276
- Pages
- 933-939
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC4782964
- OpenAlex
- W2253802357
- Cited by
- 1,214
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 108 · 2025: 137 · 2024: 147 · 2023: 123 · 2022: 155 · 2021: 136 · 2020: 109 · 2019: 82 · 2018: 97 · 2017: 65 · 2016: 50
- FWCI
- 62.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network (American Medical Association) (submittedVersion)
- DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PMC
- Funders
- Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
- Simons Foundation to the Simons Center for the Social Brain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Robert Buxton
- National Research Foundation of Korea (MEST-35B-2011-1-E00012, NRF-2014R1A1A1006089)
- Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (329388)
- Smith Family Foundation
- Searle Scholars Program
- Alzheimer's Association (MNIRGDP-12-258900)
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD) (21069)
- NIH (F31NS083277, R00DK091508, R01NS086933)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Biological Psychiatry › Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Keywords
- maternal immune activation, autism spectrum disorder, IL-17A, RORγt, Th17 cells, maternal viral infection, autism-like behavior, fetal brain, prenatal inflammation
- MeSH terms
- Autism Spectrum Disorder, Retinoic Acid Receptor gamma, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Behavioral Symptoms, Cerebral Cortex, Female, Male, Maternal-Fetal Exchange, Mutation, Phenotype, Pregnancy, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, RNA, Messenger, Signal Transduction, Receptors, Retinoic Acid, Antibodies, Blocking, Interleukin-17, Mice, Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 3, Th17 Cells
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