Dissociation between learning and memory impairment and other sickness behaviours during simulated Mycoplasma infection in rats

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1607-1616

  Swanepoel, Tanya ^a   Harvey, Brian H ^b   Harden, Lois M ^a,c   Laburn, Helen P ^a   Mitchell, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fibroblast stimulating lipopeptide 1; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus; IL 6; Interleukin (IL) 1 ; Learning and memory; Morris Water Maze; Rat; Systemic infection

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST STIMULATING LIPOPEPTIDE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PYROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SIMULATION; FEVER; FOOD INTAKE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING DISORDER; LETHARGY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MYCOPLASMA SALIVARIUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIGLYCERIDES; EATING; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PYROGENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 80053920728     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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