Revisiting Metchnikoff: Age-related alterations in microbiota-gut-brain axis in the mouse

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue , 2017, Pages 20-32

  Scott, Karen A ^a   Ida, Masayuki ^b   Peterson, Veronica L ^a,c   Prenderville, Jack A ^a   Moloney, Gerard M ^c   Izumo, Takayuki ^b   Murphy, Kiera ^d   Murphy, Amy ^d   Ross, R Paul ^c   Stanton, Catherine ^d   Dinan, Timothy G ^a,c   Cryan, John F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Suntory Wellness Limited Research Center   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ageing; Anxiety; Behaviour; Cognitive impairment; Gut permeability; Inflammation; Microbiota; Microbiota gut brain axis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; CYTOKINE;

ACUTE STRESS; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MICROBIOTA GUT BRAIN AXIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; ODORIBACTER; PORPHYROMONADACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION TEST; SOCIAL RECOGNITION TEST; SPATIAL MEMORY; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; COGNITION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PORPHYROMONAS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; CYTOKINES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROBIOTA; PORPHYROMONAS;

EID: 85013843627     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.02.004     Document Type: Article

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