β-alanine supplemented diets enhance behavioral resilience to stress exposure in an animal model of PTSD

Amino Acids

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1247-1257

  Hoffman, Jay R ^a   Ostfeld, Ishay ^b   Stout, Jeffrey R ^a   Harris, Roger C ^c   Kaplan, Zeev ^d   Cohen, Hagit ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^c Junipa Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

BDNF; Carnosine; Corticosterone; Military; Nutrition; Supplementation

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BETA-ALANINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84940005393     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-015-1952-y     Document Type: Article

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