Early Life Stress Alters Behavior, Immunity, and Microbiota in Rats: Implications for Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Psychiatric Illnesses

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 263-267

  O'Mahony, Siobhain M ^a,c   Marchesi, Julian R ^a,b,d   Scully, Paul ^a   Codling, Caroline ^a,b   Ceolho, Anne Marie ^c   Quigley, Eamonn M M ^a   Cryan, John F ^a,b   Dinan, Timothy G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal model; brain gut axis; early life stress; IBS; maternal separation; psychiatric illness

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IRRITABLE COLON; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COLON; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FECES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORMONES; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MENTAL DISORDERS; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 58149291318     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.06.026     Document Type: Article

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