A novel automated test battery reveals enduring behavioural alterations and cognitive impairments in survivors of murine pneumococcal meningitis

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-124

  Too, L K ^a   Ball, H J ^a   McGregor, I S ^a   Hunt, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural alterations; Central nervous system; Cognitive deficits; IntelliCage; Neuroinflammation; Neurological disease; Neurological sequelae; Pneumococcal meningitis

Indexed keywords

CCL1 CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INTELLICAGE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPHOBIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPATIAL LEARNING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MODEL; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MEMORY; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84901498637     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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