Less immune activation following social stress in rural vs. urban participants raised with regular or no animal contact, respectively

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 20, 2018, Pages 5259-5264

  Böbel, Till S ^a   Hackl, Sascha B ^a   Langgartner, Dominik ^a   Jarczok, Marc N ^a   Rohleder, Nicolas ^b   Rook, Graham A ^c   Lowry, Christopher A ^d,e,f,g,h   Gündel, Harald ^a   Waller, Christiane ^a   Reber, Stefan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center   (United States)

^h VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Old friends; Rural; TSST; Urban

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME; CONCANAVALIN A; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; CYTOKINE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOR TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PET ANIMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STRESS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; PETS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RURAL POPULATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85046948079     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1719866115     Document Type: Article

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