Sex differences in the response to influenza virus infection: Modulation by stress

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 257-264

  Avitsur, Ronit ^a   Mays, Jacqueline W ^b   Sheridan, John F ^b  

^a ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid; Influenza virus; Mice; Proinflammatory cytokine; Restraint stress; Sickness behavior

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; SACCHARIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA A; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79851512183     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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