Neonatal endotoxin exposure impairs avoidance learning and attenuates endotoxin-induced sickness behavior and central IL-1β gene transcription in adulthood

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-31

  Kohman, Rachel A ^a   Tarr, Andrew J ^a   Sparkman, Nathan L ^a   Bogale, Tiroyaone M H ^a   Boehm, Gary W ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Bacterial endotoxin; Cytokines; Interleukin 1; Learning; Lipopolysaccharide; Perinatal; Sickness behavior

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOTOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LEARNING DISORDERS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 50049117698     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.06.018     Document Type: Article

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