Title:Autism Spectrum Disorders: Advances in Proteomics
Volume: 30
Issue: 5
Author(s): Hui Zhou and Xiao-Li Feng*
Affiliation:
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Science, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500,
China
- Institute of Neuroscience, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China
Keywords:
Animal models, stage of development, multiple tissue samples, protein interaction, biomarker, autism, spectrum disorders.
Abstract: Autism is a class of developmental disorders with extremely high rates of disability,
affecting patients throughout their lives. There is no cure to date clinically, and early
rehabilitation interventions can improve some of the behavioral problems of autistic patients, but
these are limited by age and often have minimal effects in older adults with autism. Early
diagnosis is also necessary while developing effective autism therapies. At present, the early
diagnosis of autism is dependent on the search for effective markers in an attempt to screen
differentially expressed proteins in autistic patients using high-throughput assays, such as
synaptic scaffolding proteins, microtubule-associated proteins, apolipoproteins, immunoglobulin
G complement factor-related proteins, etc. It would also be a big step forward for mechanistic
studies of autism if a valid biomarker for autism could be found.