ArticleBrain sciences2021
The Effect of Maternal Immune Activation on Social Play-Induced Ultrasonic Vocalization in Rats.
Article in Brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- A "personality test" for rats reveals subtle but distinct effects of sex and early life inflammation on brain and behavior.Behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Infant rat ultrasonic vocalizations in the neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Tryptophan hydroxylase 2 deficiency alters autism-related behavioural phenotypes in rats.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The potential ameliorative effect of mesenchymal stem cells-derived exosomes on cerebellar histopathology and their modifying role on PI3k-mTOR signaling in rat model of autism spectrum disorder.Journal of molecular histology · 2025Article
- Maternal immune activation with toll-like receptor 7 agonist during mid-gestation alters juvenile and adult developmental milestones and behavior.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Sex differences in offspring risk and resilience following 11β-hydroxylase antagonism in a rodent model of maternal immune activation.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Prenatal allergic inflammation in rats confers sex-specific alterations to oxytocin and vasopressin innervation in social brain regions.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Impaired erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular B receptors signaling in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus following maternal immune activation in male rats.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2023Article
- Prenatal infection and adolescent social adversity affect microglia, synaptic density, and behavior in male rats.Neurobiology of stress · 2023Article
- Beyond TORCH: A narrative review of the impact of antenatal and perinatal infections on the risk of disability.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Maternal immune activation affects socio-communicative behavior in adult rats.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Poly(I:C)-induced maternal immune activation causes elevated self-grooming in male rat offspring: Involvement of abnormal postpartum static nursing in dam.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- The impact of maternal immune activation on embryonic brain development.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Sex Differences in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Key Role for the Immune System.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023Article
- Astroglia in Autism Spectrum Disorder.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Maternal immune activation alters the sequential structure of ultrasonic communications in male rats.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2021Article
- Social Behavior and Ultrasonic Vocalizations in a Genetic Rat Model Haploinsufficient for the Cross-Disorder Risk GeneBrain sciences · 2021Review
- Subtle alterations in neonatal neurodevelopment following early or late exposure to prenatal maternal immune activation in mice.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Prenatal maternal infection is associated with an increased risk of various neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Maternal immune activation (MIA) can be experimentally induced by prenatal administration of polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid (poly I:C), a synthetic viral-like double-stranded RNA. Although this MIA model is adopted in many studies, social and communicative deficits, included in the first diagnostic criterion of ASD, are poorly described in the offspring of poly(I:C)-exposed dams. This study aimed to characterize the impact of prenatal poly(I:C) exposure on socio-communicative behaviors in adolescent rats. For this purpose, social play behavior was assessed in both males and females. We also analyzed quantitative and structural changes in ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) emitted by rats during the play test. Deficits of social play behaviors were evident only in male rats. Males also emitted a significantly decreased number of USVs during social encounters. Prenatal poly(I:C) exposure also affected acoustic call parameters, as reflected by the increased peak frequencies. Additionally, repetitive behaviors were demonstrated in autistic-like animals regardless of sex. This study demonstrates that prenatal poly(I:C) exposure impairs socio-communicative functioning in adolescent rats. USVs may be a useful tool for identifying early autistic-like abnormalities.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.