Chronic intermittent cold stress sensitizes neuro-immune reactivity in the rat brain

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1164-1174

  Girotti, Milena ^a   Donegan, Jennifer J ^a   Morilak, David A ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Cytokines; Footshock; Hypothalamus; Lipopolysaccharide; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC STRESS; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOTSHOCK; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COLD TEMPERATURE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENCEPHALITIS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80051475263     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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