Early-life stress selectively affects gastrointestinal but not behavioral responses in a genetic model of brain-gut axis dysfunction

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 105-113

  Hyland, N P ^a,b   O'Mahony, S M ^a,b   O'Malley, D ^a,b   O'Mahony, C M ^b   Dinan, T G ^a,b   Cryan, J F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Colon; Gene environment; Maternal separation; Visceral hypersensitivity; Wistar Kyoto

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BLOOD; BRAIN; COLON; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; METABOLISM; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSIOPATHOLOGY; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; COLON; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84920087729     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: 13652982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nmo.12486     Document Type: Article

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