Mouse version of an autism spectrum disorder improves when diet includes a synthetic oil
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 11:32
in Health & Medicine
When young mice with the rodent equivalent of a rare autism spectrum disorder, called Rett syndrome, were fed a diet supplemented with the synthetic oil triheptanoin, they lived longer than mice on regular diets. Importantly, their physical and behavioral symptoms were also less severe after being on the diet.