Functional Programming of the Autonomic Nervous System by Early Life Immune Exposure: Implications for Anxiety

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Sominsky, Luba ^a   Fuller, Erin A ^a   Bondarenko, Evgeny ^b   Ong, Lin Kooi ^b   Averell, Lee ^a   Nalivaiko, Eugene ^b   Dunkley, Peter R ^b   Dickson, Phillip W ^b   Hodgson, Deborah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOSERINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESPIRATION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84874601188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057700     Document Type: Article

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