Disrupting Maternal Behavior and Inducing Cannibalism Due to Valproic Acid: An Unexplored Insight.

Ashish Jain Neha Dhir Harvinder Singh Amit Raj Sharma Bikash Medhi Ajay Prakash

Published in: Basic and clinical neuroscience (2024)

Overall, VPA has marked teratogenic effects (anatomical and morphological changes in offspring) with maternal behavior disruption, which causes cannibalism in Wistar female rats. The current manuscript findings can aid in investigating the novel mechanisms involved in maternal behavior disruption during the development of the VPA autism model.

Keyphrases

birth weight
pregnancy outcomes
gestational age
weight gain
intellectual disability
skeletal muscle
body mass index
insulin resistance
preterm birth