Sodium Dysbiosis and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Nazlı Çetin1, Yahya Özdoğan2, Oytun Erbaş1,3
1ERBAS Institute of Experimental Medicine, Illinois, USA & Gebze, Turkey
2Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
3Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty of Demiroğlu Bilim University, Istanbul, Turkey
Keywords: Autism spectrum disorder, dysbiosis, high salt
Abstract
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder whose cause and treatment are not clearly known, for which genetic and environmental factors are thought to play a role in its etiology. Although the importance of maternal diet in terms of fetus development is known, studies investigating the frequency of autism seen in offspring with the mother's diet are extremely limited. It is thought that the maternal diet influences cytokine responses and fetus development through modifying the immune system's microbiome composition. This article will examine potential mechanisms between dysbiosis and autism development due to high salt consumption.
Cite this article as: Çetin N, Özdoğan Y, Erbaş O. Sodium Dysbiosis and Autism Spectrum Disorder. JEB Med Sci 2021;2(2):122-127.
The authors declared no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.
The authors received no financial support for the research and/or authorship of this article.