Peripubertal viral-like challenge and social isolation mediate overlapping but distinct effects on behaviour and brain interferon regulatory factor 7 expression in the adult Wistar rat

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-79

  Lukasz, Bartlomiej ^a   O'Sullivan, Niamh C ^a   Loscher, Jennifer S ^a   Pickering, Mark ^a   Regan, Ciaran M ^a   Murphy, Keith J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Irf7; Maternal infection; Novel object recognition; Prepulse inhibition; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 7; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECOGNITION; SENSORY GATING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENTATE GYRUS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; INTERFERON INDUCERS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-7; INTERFERONS; MALE; POLY I-C; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY GATING; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84870741195     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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