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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
卷 290, 期 2, 页码 R273-R282出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00368.2005
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innate immunity; cytokine; chemokine; corticosterone
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- NIA NIH HHS [P01-AG-18911] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [P50-ES-012382-02] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R37-MH-41788] Funding Source: Medline
Numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated an association between persistent social isolation and '' all-cause '' morbidity and mortality. To date, no causal mechanism for these findings has been established. Whereas animal studies have often reported short-term effects of social isolation on biological systems, the long-term effects of this adverse psychological state have been understudied. This is the first animal study to examine the effects of long- term social isolation from weaning through young adulthood on an innate inflammatory response linked to numerous disease processes. Results presented here offer a plausible link between vulnerability to disease and social neglect. For socially isolated male and female Sprague-Dawley rats, a naturally gregarious species, formation of a granuloma in response to a subcutaneous injection of carrageenin (seaweed) was significantly delayed compared with the response of animals housed in single-sex groups of five. Significant sex differences, however, emerged when an acute prior stressor was superimposed on the experience of chronic social isolation. In this context, isolated females produced a more robust inflammatory response than isolated males. This sexual dimorphism at the nexus of chronic social isolation, acute stress, and inflammatory processes may account for the observation in humans that men with low levels of social integration are more vulnerable to disease and death than women.
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