Stronger hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis habituation predicts lesser sensitization of inflammatory response to repeated acute stress exposures in healthy young adults

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 61, Issue , 2017, Pages 228-235

  Thoma, Myriam V ^a,b   Gianferante, Danielle ^a   Hanlin, Luke ^a   Fiksdal, Alexander ^a   Chen, Xuejie ^a   Rohleder, Nicolas ^a,c  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cortisol; IL 6; Repeated stress exposures

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTISOL SALIVA LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; PSYCHOMETRY; SALIVA LEVEL; STANDARDIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85008502097     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.11.030     Document Type: Article

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