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November 2004, in the Annals of Neurology, 11 subjects that had deceased, being diagnosed with autism, were studied. These subjects had been killed by accident or injury; not a disease process. In each of them, multiple areas of the brain showed the presence of inflamation. In living patients diagnosed with autism, chemical inflamation markers are present. Inflammation is normally associated with a response of our immune system.

Here we can see natural killer immune system cells attacking a cancer cell. Notice how the killer cells surround the targetted cell. Notice the tentacles on the targetted cell.

Autism in children was studied in Molecular Psychology (April 2002), and they found that these particular austistic children had inflammation in the intestines. It appears that the immune system was reacting against intestinals cells, causing the inflammation.

The UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute released in 2005 a study that showed distinct biological differences in the immune system of autistic children. Autism effects 1 out of 166 children, and looking for the molecular differences between autistic children and the non-diagnosed ones is important. During this study, thre is evidence that 11 genes that control the natural killer immune system cells are more active in autistic children.

In 2005 analysis by other researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute looking at proteins in the blood. That work found autistic children had 20 percent more B cells, an immune cell that produces antibodies, and 40 percent more natural killer cells, which attack tumors, viruses and other invaders.