Neurobehavioural effects of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG alone and in combination with prebiotics polydextrose and galactooligosaccharide in male rats exposed to early-life stress

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 425-434

  McVey Neufeld, Karen Anne ^a   O'Mahony, Siobhain M ^a,b   Hoban, Alan E ^a,b   Waworuntu, Rosaline V ^c   Berg, Brian M ^c   Dinan, Timothy G ^a,b   Cryan, John F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c Mead Johnson Pediatric Nutrition Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

early life stress; microbiota gut brain axis; prebiotics; probiotics

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GALACTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; POLYDEXTROSE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUCAN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT GAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LEARNING; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GLUCANS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PREBIOTICS; PROBIOTICS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85035138000     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.2017.1397875     Document Type: Article

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