1Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 2Departments of Psychiatry; 3Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Reprint requests and correspondence: Timothy Dinan, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Cork University Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland.
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Guarantor of article: Timothy Dinan, M.D., Ph.D.
Specific author contributions: Timothy Dinan and PWN Keeling are principal investigators. PWN Keeling, Lucinda Scott, and John Cooney co-ordinated recruitment of subjects. Gerard Clarke co-ordinated laboratory activity. Eamonn Quigley, Fergus Shanahan, John Cryan, and Timothy Dinan contributed to data analysis and interpretation. All authors contributed to the preparation of the manuscript and approval of the final version.
Financial support: The authors are supported in part by Science Foundation Ireland in the form of a centre grant (Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre), by the Industrial Development Authority of Ireland, by GSK, by the Health Research Board (HRB) of Ireland, and the Higher Education Authority (HEA) of Ireland.
Potential competing interest: None.
Received October 11, 2007; accepted January 22, 2008.