Posttraumatic stress disorder is associated with an enhanced spontaneous production of pro-inflammatory cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear cells

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gola, Hannah ^a,d   Engler, Harald ^b   Sommershof, Annette ^a   Adenauer, Hannah ^a   Kolassa, Stephan ^c   Schedlowski, Manfred ^b   Groettrup, Marcus ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^a   Kolassa, Iris Tatjana ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Immune system; Inflammation; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Pro inflammatory cytokines; Traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872914326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-40     Document Type: Article

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