Western diet-induced anxiolytic effects in mice are associated with alterations in tryptophan metabolism

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 337-345

  Ohland, Christina L ^a   Pankiv, Evelina ^b   Baker, Glen ^b   Madsen, Karen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

anxiety; gut brain axis; serotonin; Western diet

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN MONOAMINE; CYTOKINE; DOPAMINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; KERATINOCYTE DERIVED CHEMOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY ASSESSMENT; ARTICLE; BARNES MAZE TEST; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERITIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOASSAY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER METABOLISM; MALE; METABOLOMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEP-DOWN PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM; WEIGHT GAIN; WESTERN DIET; 129 MOUSE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LIVER; METABOLIC DISEASES; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTOKINES; DIET, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INDOLEAMINE-PYRROLE 2,3,-DIOXYGENASE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MICE, 129 STRAIN; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 84978472810     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830515Y.0000000034     Document Type: Article

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