Material & Methods

• Rodents exposed prenatally to valproic acid (VPA) as an animal model of autism;
• Morphological and cytochemical analysis (confocal, electronic and phase contrast microscopy);
• Electrophoresis, immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation;
• Putative natural drugs with neuroprotective effects: resveratrol.
• Real-time PCR;
• Flow cytometry.