Influence of age on behavioral, immune and endocrine responses to the T-cell superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1329-1338

  Kohman, Rachel A ^a,b   Crowell, Beth ^b,c   Urbach Ross, Daniella ^a,b   Kusnecov, Alexander W ^a,b,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Corticosterone; Cytokine; Interleukin 1 ; SEA

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN A; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHAGIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRESS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGING; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CYTOKINES; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENTEROTOXINS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN; SUPERANTIGENS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 70350761987     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06921.x     Document Type: Article

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