Postnatal colonization with human "infant-type" Bifidobacterium species alters behavior of adult gnotobiotic mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Luk, Berkley ^a,b   Veeraragavan, Surabi ^b   Engevik, Melinda ^a,b   Balderas, Miriam ^a,b   Major, Angela ^a   Runge, Jessica ^a,b   Luna, Ruth Ann ^a,b   Versalovic, James ^a,b  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM DENTIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM SUBSP. INFANTIS; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GNOTOBIOTICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RRNA GENE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GERM-FREE LIFE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR SKILLS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 85047113803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196510     Document Type: Article

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