Winter day lengths enhance T lymphocyte phenotypes, inhibit cytokine responses, and attenuate behavioral symptoms of infection in laboratory rats

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1096-1108

  Prendergast, Brian J ^a   Kampf Lassin, August ^a   Yee, Jason R ^a   Galang, Jerome ^a   McMaster, Nicholas ^a   Kay, Leslie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Depression; IL 1 ; IL 6; Photoperiodism; Sickness behavior; TNF

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD INTAKE; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; WINTER;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUNLIGHT; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34748826760     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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