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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 47, 期 2, 页码 119-126出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00238-3
关键词
early experience; mortality; rhesus monkeys; psychoneuroimmunology; social isolation; flow cytometry
资金
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH42938] Funding Source: Medline
Background: Early differential social experience of non-human primates has resulted in long-term alterations in behavior and neurobiology. Although brief maternal separation has been associated with changes in immune status, the long-term effects on survival and immune function of prolonged early social deprivation are unknown. Methods: Survival rates were examined in rhesus monkeys, half of which had been socially deprived during their first year of life. Repeated measures of immune status were tested in surviving monkeys (18-24 years old). Peripheral blood T, B, and natural killer lymphocytes, macrophages, and monocytes were measured by flow cytometry. Function al cellular immune activity measures included T-cell proliferative responses to mitogens (concanavalin and phytohemagglutinin), T-cell memory response to tetanus toroid antigen, T-cell-dependent B-cell proliferative responses to mitogen (PWM) and natural killer cell cytotoxic activity, Results: Despite identical environments following isolation, early social deprivation resulted in a significantly decreased survival rate, males being particularly vulnerable to early death, Early social deprivation was associated with a decrease in the ratio of helper to suppressor T cells, and a significant increase in natural killer cell number and in natural killer cell activity in the surviving monkeys. No differences in T- or B-lymphocyte proliferation following mitogen or tetanus toxoid antigen stimulation were observed, Conclusions: Prolonged early social deprivation of nonhuman primates profoundly affected mortality and resulted in lifelong effects on cell-mediated immune status. (C) 2000 Society of Biological Psychiatry.
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