Vagal pathways for microbiome-brain-gut axis communication

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 817, Issue , 2014, Pages 115-133

  Forsythe, Paul ^a   Bienenstock, John ^a   Kunze, Wolfgang A ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DESIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEPRESSION; FAT INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE INNERVATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOME; MICROBIOME BRAIN GUT AXIS; MOOD DISORDER; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VAGUS TONE; ANIMAL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MICROBIOTA; REFLEX; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84909630912     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0897-4_5     Document Type: Article

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