Helminth infection alters mood and short-term memory as well as levels of neurotransmitters and cytokines in the mouse hippocampus

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 195-205

  Morales Montor, Jorge ^b   Picazo, Ofir ^d   Besedovsky, Hugo ^a   Hernández Bello, Romel ^h   López Griego, Lorena ^b   Becerril Villanueva, Enrique ^e   Moreno, Julia ^f,g   Pavón, Lenin ^e   Nava Castro, Karen ^c   Camacho Arroyo, Ignacio ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^e Laboratorio de Psicoinmunología de la Dirección de Investigaciones en Neurociencias   (Mexico)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^g INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^h Medicina UANL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cysticercosis; Helminthes; Hippocampus; Immunity; Infection; Neurocytokines; Neurotransmitters; Short term memory; Taenia crassiceps

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DEPRESSION; FORCED SWIM TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILITY; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD; MOUSE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BRAIN LEVEL; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYSTICERCOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MALE; MOBILIZATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS;

EID: 84893652077     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: 14230216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000356521     Document Type: Article

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