Repeated predictable stress causes resilience against colitis-induced behavioral changes in mice

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue November, 2014, Pages

  Hassan, Ahmed M ^a   Jain, Piyush ^a   Reichmann, Florian ^a   Mayerhofer, Raphaela ^a   Farzi, Aitak ^a   Schuligoi, Rufina ^a   Holzer, Peter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Corticosterone; Cyclooxygenase 2; DSS induced colitis; Gut brain axis; Neuropeptide Y; Resilience; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXTRAN SULFATE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 6; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CONTENT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TAIL SUSPENSION TEST;

EID: 84908703311     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00386     Document Type: Article

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