Patterns of Toxoplasma gondii cyst distribution in the forebrain associate with individual variation in predator odor avoidance and anxiety-related behavior in male Long-Evans rats

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 122-133

  Evans, Andrew K ^a   Strassmann, Patrick S ^a   Lee, I Ping ^a   Sapolsky, Robert M ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavior; Cyst distribution; Immune; Individual variation; Kynurenine; Microglia; Neuroanatomy; Predator aversion; Seroconversion; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CYST; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLAUSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; DENTATE GYRUS; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; INSULA; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LOCOMOTION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICROGLIA; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREOPTIC AREA; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SECONDARY AUDITORY CORTEX; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TROPISM; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; CYST DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; KYNURENINE; MICROGLIA; NEUROANATOMY; PREDATOR AVERSION; SEROCONVERSION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CYSTS; MALE; ODORS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84896738085     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.11.012     Document Type: Article

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