Chang Yu-Chi, Cole Toby B, Costa Lucio G
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Curr Protoc Toxicol. 2017 May 2;72:11.22.1-11.22.21. doi: 10.1002/cptx.19.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represents a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by alterations in three behavioral symptom domains: Social interactions, verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behaviors. Increasing prevalence of ASD in recent years suggests that exposure to environmental toxicants may be critical in modulating etiology of this disease. As clinical diagnosis of autism still relies on behavioral evaluation, it is important to be able to assess similar behavioral traits in animal models, to provide biological plausibility of associations between environmental exposures and ASD. Rodents naturally exhibit a large number of behaviors that can be linked to similar behaviors in human. In this unit, behavioral tests are described that are relevant to the domains affected in ASD. For the repetitive domain, the T-maze spontaneous alternation test and marble burying test are described. For the communication domain, neonatal ultrasonic vocalization and olfactory habituation test toward social and non-social odor are described. Finally, for the sociability domain, the three-chambered social preference test and the reciprocal interaction test are presented. © 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)是一组异质性疾病,其特征在于三个行为症状领域的改变:社交互动、言语和非言语交流以及重复行为。近年来ASD患病率的上升表明,接触环境毒物可能对调节该疾病的病因至关重要。由于自闭症的临床诊断仍依赖于行为评估,因此能够在动物模型中评估类似的行为特征,以提供环境暴露与ASD之间关联的生物学合理性非常重要。啮齿动物自然会表现出大量可与人类类似行为相关联的行为。在本单元中,描述了与ASD中受影响领域相关的行为测试。对于重复行为领域,描述了T迷宫自发交替测试和大理石掩埋测试。对于交流领域,描述了新生儿超声发声以及对社交和非社交气味的嗅觉习惯化测试。最后,对于社交能力领域,介绍了三室社交偏好测试和相互作用测试。© 2017约翰威立父子公司版权所有。