Early life diets with prebiotics and bioactive milk fractions attenuate the impact of stress on learned helplessness behaviours and alter gene expression within neural circuits important for stress resistance

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 342-357

  Mika, Agnieszka ^a   Day, Heidi E W ^a   Martinez, Alexander ^a   Rumian, Nicole L ^a   Greenwood, Benjamin N ^b   Chichlowski, Maciej ^c   Berg, Brian M ^c   Fleshner, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Mead Johnson Pediatric Nutrition Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; F344 rats; gut microbiota; lactoferrin; prebiotics

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; GALACTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GLUCOSE; LACTOFERRIN; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN C FOS;

ACUTE STRESS; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HABENULA; INTESTINE FLORA; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS PARACASEI; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; MILK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SPLEEN WEIGHT; STRESS; ANIMAL; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFECTS; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RAPHE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DIET; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; LACTOFERRIN; MALE; PREBIOTICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1A; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85001875280     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13444     Document Type: Article

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