Oxytocin alleviates the neuroendocrine and cytokine response to bacterial endotoxin in healthy men

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 295, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Clodi, Martin ^a   Vila, Greisa ^a   Geyeregger, René ^a   Riedl, Michaela ^a   Stulnig, Thomas M ^a   Struck, Joachim ^b   Luger, Thomas A ^c   Luger, Anton ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal; Neuroendocrinology

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO; PROCALCITONIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN; CHEMOKINE; HORMONE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ADULT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ENDOTOXEMIA; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MODULATION; MONOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RODENT; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL SEPARATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FEVER; METABOLISM; NEUROSECRETION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL SEPARATION; CHEMOKINES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; CYTOKINES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOTOXINS; FEVER; HORMONES; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MONOCYTES; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; OXYTOCIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 53149144303     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.90263.2008     Document Type: Article

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