n-3 PUFAs have beneficial effects onanxiety and cognition in female rats: Effectsof early life stress

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 79-90

  Pusceddu, Matteo M ^a,b   Kelly, Philip ^c,d   Ariffin, Nurbazilah ^a   Cryan, John F ^a,b   Clarke, Gerard ^a,b   Dinan, Timothy G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^d TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Cytokines; GRs; Monoamineneurotransmitters; n 3 PUFAs; Early life stress

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID PLUS ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MONOAMINE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; HOPELESSNESS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG THERAPY; MENTAL STRESS; RECOGNITION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84930193348     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.04.015     Document Type: Article

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