Brain mast cells link the immune system to anxiety-like behavior

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 18053-18057

  Nautiyal, Katherine M ^a   Ribeiro, Ana C ^b   Pfaff, Donald W ^b   Silver, Rae ^a,c,d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Cromolyn; Defecation; Psychoneuroimmunology; Sash mice

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EMOTIONALITY; GENE LOSS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAST CELL; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CROMOLYN SODIUM; DEFECATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAST CELLS; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHENOTYPE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 56649085176     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809479105     Document Type: Article

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