Relationship between autism and nasal cytology

Autism is a complex psychopathology caused by an abnormal neuropsychological development to which an individual is not able to self-regulate their feelings towards a coherent and correct psychomotor activity and communicative.Many factors contribute to the onset of this disease, and recent studies have highlighted, which important causes, in addition to the neuro-immunological interactions, the increased presence in the blood of inflammatory substances such as cytokines. Our research has been devoted to the identification of inflammatory cells in the nose in autistic patients by panoptic staining and microscopic observation. From the results obtained it proved the presence of a greater number of inflammatory cells in autistic subjects compared to normal individuals