Gut Microbiota Composition Is Correlated to Grid Floor Induced Stress and Behavior in the BALB/c Mouse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Bangsgaard Bendtsen, Katja Maria ^a   Krych, Lukasz ^a   Sørensen, Dorte Bratbo ^a   Pang, Wanyong ^a   Nielsen, Dennis Sandris ^a   Josefsen, Knud ^b   Hansen, Lars H ^c   Sørensen, Søren J ^c   Hansen, Axel Kornerup ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA;

ALISTIPES; AMPLICON; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BURROWING TEST; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORIOBACTERIACEAE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMOBILIZATION; INTESTINE FLORA; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; LIGHT DARK BOX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODORIBACTER; OPEN FIELD TEST; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA GENE; RUMINOCOCCACEAE; STRESS; TAIL SUSPENSION TEST;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; INTESTINES; MAZE LEARNING; METAGENOME; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ALISTIPES; ANIMALIA; CORIOBACTERIACEAE; FIRMICUTES; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; MUS; ODORIBACTER;

EID: 84867024598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046231     Document Type: Article

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