Probiotic modulation of the microbiota-gut-brain axis and behaviour in zebrafish

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Borrelli, Luca ^a   Aceto, Serena ^a   Agnisola, Claudio ^a   De Paolo, Sofia ^a   Dipineto, Ludovico ^a   Stilling, Roman M ^b   Dinan, Timothy G ^b,c   Cryan, John F ^b,c   Menna, Lucia F ^a   Fioretti, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; PROBIOTICS; SEROTONIN; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84978712126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep30046     Document Type: Article

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