Construction of an animal model of autism based on interaction between cerebellar histological, immunohistochemical, and biochemical changes in adult male albino rat.
Eman Saeed Mokhtar Tawfeek, Salwa Aly Abou Elez Gawish, Wafaa Saad Hamed, Samar A Asker
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Abstract
Methods: Twelve pregnant female rats were divided into a control group and a valproic acid (VPA) treated group (injected intraperitoneally on embryonic day 12 with 600 mg/kg body weight of VPA). Neurobehavioral tests were conducted on the offspring of both groups. The cerebellum was studied by light and electron microscopy as well as GFAP and caspase-3 immunohistochemical staining.
Results: The VPA-treated group showed signs of neuronal degeneration, such as congested blood vessels, vacuolations, irregularly shrunken with dark small heterochromatic nuclei and numerous apoptotic blebs in the Purkinje and granule cells with vacuolated cerebellar glomeruli. The myelinated nerve fibers showed rarefaction and loss of their neurofilaments. GFAP and caspase-3 immune expression were significantly altered in the VPA-treated group.
Conclusion: The VPA rat model can serve as an excellent model of autism at the structural level, which may be used as a validated model in preclinical studies to evaluate novel drugs.
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Ultrastructural Pathology is the official journal of the Society for Ultrastructural Pathology. Published bimonthly, we are the only journal to be devoted entirely to diagnostic ultrastructural pathology.
Ultrastructural Pathology is the ideal journal to publish high-quality research on the following topics:
Advances in the uses of electron microscopic and immunohistochemical techniques
Correlations of ultrastructural data with light microscopy, histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, biochemistry, cell and tissue culturing, and electron probe analysis
Important new, investigative, clinical, and diagnostic EM methods.
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