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In utero exposure to valproic acid and autism — A current review of clinical and animal studies

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A review of clinical studies that examined pregnancy outcomes of VPA use as well as the related animal studies that investigated anatomical, behavioral, molecular, and physiological outcomes related to in utero VPA exposure.
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This article is published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 334 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Autism.

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Sensory Filtering and Cognitive Function in a Valproic Acid Rat Model of Autism

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TL;DR: This chapter discusses sensory processing theories, animal models of Autism, and the proposed framework, which aims to address these issues in more detail.
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Wnt signaling regulates neuronal migration in the cerebral cortex

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that transient down-regulation of canonical Wnt signaling is necessary during the multipolar-to-bipolar transition and is of special interest for intracortical network formation.
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Reinforced behavioral variability in the valproate rat model of autism spectrum disorder.

TL;DR: Testing VPA and control rats in a reinforced-behavioral-variability operant task found that VPA rats behaved slightly more variably than controls during baseline and yoked conditions, when variability was not required.
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Perineuronal Nets in the Dorsomedial Striatum Contribute to Behavioral Dysfunction in Mouse Models of Excessive Repetitive Behavior

TL;DR: In this paper , perineuronal nets (PNNs) are degraded in the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) using the enzyme chondroitinase ABC and assessed dendritic spine density, electrophysiology and repetitive behavior.
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Valproic acid defines a novel class of HDAC inhibitors inducing differentiation of transformed cells

TL;DR: Valproic acid induces differentiation of carcinoma cells, transformed hematopoietic progenitor cells and leukemic blasts from acute myeloid leukemia patients, and tumor growth and metastasis formation are significantly reduced in animal experiments, suggesting that it might serve as an effective drug for cancer therapy.
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Epidemiological surveys of autism and other pervasive developmental disorders: an update.

TL;DR: There is evidence that changes in case definition and improved awareness explain much of the upward trend of rates in recent decades, however, available epidemiological surveys do not provide an adequate test of the hypothesis of a changing incidence of PDDs.

Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders - Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 14 sites, United States, 2008

Jon Baio
TL;DR: This report provides updated ASD prevalence estimates from the 2008 surveillance year, representing 14 ADDM areas in the United States and characteristics of the population of children with ASDs are described, as well as detailed comparisons of the 2008 findings with those for the 2002 and 2006 surveillance years.
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Behavioral alterations in rats prenatally exposed to valproic acid: Animal model of autism

TL;DR: Interestingly, all behavioral aberrations described in this paper appear before puberty, which could distinguish the VPA rat model of autism from other animal models of neurodevelopmental disorders, especially rodent models of schizophrenia.
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