Fig. 5From: Blood–brain barrier and intestinal epithelial barrier alterations in autism spectrum disordersIncreased CLDN-5 and decreased CLDN-12 expression in the cortex of ASD subjects. a Brain tissues were lysed and immunoblotted with anti-claudin-5, anti-claudin-12, SMA or actin antibody. b Densitometry analysis of the results from the western blots is shown, where the data are normalized against SMA expression and are expressed as the mean ± standard error. Quantitative results represent the average of three independent experiments.*p < 0.05; ****p < 0.0001Back to article page