ArticleFrontiers in synaptic neuroscience2017
Gestational Exposure to Air Pollution Alters Cortical Volume, Microglial Morphology, and Microglia-Neuron Interactions in a Sex-Specific Manner.
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- Effects of combined prenatal exposure to air pollution and maternal stress on immune and dopaminergic gene expression in the gut-brain axis.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Effects of combined prenatal exposure to air pollution and maternal stress on social behavior and oxytocin and vasopressin systems in male and female mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- Decoding mechanisms and protein markers in lung-brain axis.Respiratory research · 2025Review
- Sex and Region-Specific Differences in Microglial Morphology and Function Across Development.Neuroglia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Fetal development and the air pollution exposome: an integrative perspective of health pathways.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Integrated transcriptomic and network analysis reveals candidate immune-metabolic biomarkers in children with the inattentive type of ADHD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Developmental functions of microglia: Impact of psychosocial and physiological early life stress.Neuropharmacology · 2024Review
- Prenatal environmental risk factors for autism spectrum disorder and their potential mechanisms.BMC medicine · 2024Review
- Microglial responses to inflammatory challenge in adult rats altered by developmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls in a sex-specific manner.Neurotoxicology · 2024Article
- Neonatal immune stimulation results in sex-specific changes in ultrasonic vocalizations but does not affect seizure susceptibility in neonatal mice.International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Inhaled Pollutants of the Gero-Exposome and Later-Life Health.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Review
- Altered Morpho-Functional Features of Neurogenesis in Zebrafish Embryos Exposed to Non-Combustion-Derived Magnetite.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Microglia are the resident immune cells of the brain, important for normal neural development in addition to host defense in response to inflammatory stimuli. Air pollution is one of the most pervasive and harmful environmental toxicants in the modern world, and several large scale epidemiological studies have recently linked prenatal air pollution exposure with an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Diesel exhaust particles (DEP) are a primary toxic component of air pollution, and markedly activate microglia
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