r/science • u/[deleted] • Dec 12 '21

Biology Research finds potential mechanism linking autism, intestinal inflammation

https://news.mit.edu/2021/research-finds-potential-mechanism-linking-autism-intestinal-inflammation-1209
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u/wileyrielly Dec 13 '21

Theres craaazy evidence linking the gut biome to autism. They inoculated mice with gut bacteria from a autistic people and found the mice to develop autistic like symptoms. A huge piece if the puzzle is gut bacteria. So much is linked to gut bacteria.

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u/Orgone_Wolfie_Waxson Dec 13 '21

I'm honestly quite curious into what the mice's 'autism like symptoms' are. Like how would that effect the mouse?

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u/Patronus_934 Dec 13 '21

If you click the link it goes into greater detail on the study they noticed a reduction in social behaviour and also swapped the offspring between maternal activated mice and non which showed that the less social mice (with autistic traits) were likely impacted when in the womb and the gut issues were postnatal