Increased irritability, anxiety, and immune reactivity in transgenic Huntington's disease monkeys

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 181-190

  Raper, Jessica ^a   Bosinger, Steven ^a   Johnson, Zachary ^a   Tharp, Gregory ^a   Moran, Sean P ^a   Chan, Anthony W S ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Emotion; IL 6; Inflammation; ISGs; TNF

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; HYDROCORTISONE; RNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; EMOTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IRRITABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84995366729     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.07.004     Document Type: Article

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