The impact of microbiota on brain and behavior: Mechanisms & therapeutic potential

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 817, Issue , 2014, Pages 373-403

  Borre, Yuliya E ^a   Moloney, Rachel D ^a,b   Clarke, Gerard ^a   Dinan, Timothy G ^b   Cryan, John F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONE; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; PLACEBO; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE STRESS; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BRAIN; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DYSBIOSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE LYMPHATIC TISSUE; IRRITABLE COLON; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN METABOLISM; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM; ANIMAL; BRAIN DISEASE; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; COGNITION; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MICROBIOTA; PROBIOTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84908582347     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0897-4_17     Document Type: Article

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