{"id":86951,"date":"2019-01-23T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/common-food-additives-may-promote-anxiety-related-behavior-in-mice"},"modified":"2019-01-23T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:42:41","slug":"common-food-additives-may-promote-anxiety-related-behavior-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/common-food-additives-may-promote-anxiety-related-behavior-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Common Food Additives May Promote Anxiety-Related Behavior In Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-food-additives-may-promote-anxiety-related-behavior-in-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Food additives known as dietary emulsifiers, commonly found in processed foods to improve texture and extend shelf life, may adversely affect anxiety-related and social behaviors in mice, Georgia State researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists also observed sex differences in the mice\u2019s behavioral patterns, suggesting that emulsifiers affect the brain via distinct mechanisms in males and females.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-018-36890-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>, published in <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>, was led by <a href=\"https:\/\/shared.cas.gsu.edu\/profile\/geert-de-vries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geert de Vries<\/a>, professor of neuroscience and associate vice president for research at Georgia State, and <a href=\"https:\/\/shared.cas.gsu.edu\/profile\/benoit-chassaing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benoit Chassaing<\/a>, assistant professor of neuroscience. <a href=\"https:\/\/biomedical.gsu.edu\/profile\/andrew-gewirtz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew T. Gewirtz<\/a>, professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, also contributed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/505483\/common-food-additives-may-promote-anxiety-related-behavior-in-mice\/\">https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/505483\/common-food-additives-may-pro...r-in-mice\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food additives known as dietary emulsifiers, commonly found in processed foods to improve texture and extend shelf life, may adversely affect anxiety-related and social behaviors in mice, Georgia State researchers have found. The scientists also observed sex differences in the mice\u2019s behavioral patterns, suggesting that emulsifiers affect the brain via distinct mechanisms in males and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}