Oral treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus attenuates behavioural deficits and immune changes in chronic social stress

BMC Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Bharwani, Aadil ^a,b,c   Mian, M Firoz ^b   Surette, Michael G ^a,d   Bienenstock, John ^a,b   Forsythe, Paul ^a,b,e  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Chronic social defeat; Gut brain axis; Immune system; Microbiota; Psychiatric disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DYSBIOSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

INTERLEUKIN 10; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; INTERLEUKIN-10; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROBIOTICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85008675464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0771-7     Document Type: Article

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