Artificial light at night alters delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction in response to acute stress in Siberian hamsters

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-42

  Bedrosian, Tracy A ^a   Aubrecht, Taryn G ^a   Kaugars, Katherine E ^b   Weil, Zachary M ^a   Nelson, Randy J ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Immune function; Light pollution; Phodopus sungorus; Restraint stress

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; FITNESS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LIGHT AT NIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT POLLUTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

IMMUNE FUNCTION; LIGHT POLLUTION; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS; RESTRAINT STRESS;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; LIGHT; MALE; PHODOPUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885072052     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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