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Early‐life stress selectively affects gastrointestinal but not behavioral responses in a genetic model of brain–gut axis dysfunction
2 Dec 2014
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BACKGROUND: Early-life stress and a genetic predisposition to display an anxiety- and depressive-like phenotype are associated with behavioral and gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction. Animals exposed to early-life stress, and those genetically predisposed to display anxiety or depressive behaviors, have proven useful tools in which to study stress-related GI disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IBS is...
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