Perinatal maternal probiotic intervention impacts immune responses and ileal mucin gene expression in a rat model of irritable bowel syndrome

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 83-95

  Barouei, J ^a,b   Moussavi, M ^a,b   Hodgson, D M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene expression; IBS; Immune response; MUC2; Rat model

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; HAPTOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; MUCIN 2; PROBIOTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; MUCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MUC2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROGENY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MUCINS; PROBIOTICS; RATS;

EID: 84920964307     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2013.0011     Document Type: Article

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