Social interaction-induced activation of RNA splicing in the amygdala of microbiome-deficient mice

eLife

Volumn 7, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Stilling, Roman M ^a,b,c   Moloney, Gerard M ^a,b   Ryan, Feargal J ^a,b   Hoban, Alan E ^a,b   Bastiaanssen, Thomaz F S ^a,b   Shanahan, Fergus ^a   Clarke, Gerard ^a,b   Claesson, Marcus J ^a,b   Dinan, Timothy G ^a,b   Cryan, John F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMFREE MOUSE; MALE; MICROBIOME; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; INTESTINE FLORA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WEANING;

NERVE PROTEIN; RNA SPLICING FACTOR;

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GERM-FREE LIFE; MALE; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA SPLICING FACTORS; WEANING;

EID: 85051974721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.33070     Document Type: Article

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