Acute dietary tryptophan manipulation differentially alters social behavior, brain serotonin and plasma corticosterone in three inbred mouse strains

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 90, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-8

  Zhang, Wynne Q ^a,b   Smolik, Corey M ^a   Barba Escobedo, Priscilla A ^a,c   Gamez, Monica ^c   Sanchez, Jesus J ^a   Javors, Martin A ^a   Daws, Lynette C ^a   Gould, Georgianna G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

129S1 SvImJ; Autism; BTBR; C57BL 6; Grooming; Marble burying; Serotonin; Social behavior; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPLETION; DIETARY INTAKE; GROOMING; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONIN METABOLISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRYPTOPHAN DEPLETION; TRYPTOPHAN INTAKE; 129 MOUSE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; DIET; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; DIET; MALE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEROTONIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84911471917     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2014.10.024     Document Type: Article

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