Neuroimmunoendocrine interactions in patients with recurrent major depression, increased early life stress and long-standing posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-42

  Lopes, Rodrigo Pestana ^a,d   Grassi Oliveira, Rodrigo ^a   De Almeida, Lettícia R ^a   Stein, Lilian Milnitsky ^a   Luz, Clarice ^b   Teixeira, Antonio L ^c   Bauer, Moisés E ^a,e  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b LabVitrus   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d BD Biosciences   (Brazil)

^e Instituto de Pesquisas Biomedicas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Childhood maltreatment, trauma; Early life stress; Glucocorticoids; Major depressive disorder; Th1 Th2 cytokines

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CYTOKINE; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 TH2 BALANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80855124118     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: 14230216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000327352     Document Type: Article

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