The microbiome-gut-brain axis during early life regulates the hippocampal serotonergic system in a sex-dependent manner

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 666-673

  Clarke, G ^a,b   Grenham, S ^a   Scully, P ^a   Fitzgerald, P ^a   Moloney, R D ^a   Shanahan, F ^a,b   Dinan, T G ^a,b   Cryan, J F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

anxiety; central nervous system; germ free; microbiota; recolonisation; serotonin

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTESTINE; MALE; MICROBIOME; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MICROBIOTA; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84878241830     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.77     Document Type: Article

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