Science news articles about 'stress and immunity'
Stress during childhood increases the risk of allergies
... of 565 children were examined in Leipzig, and for 234 participants, blood analyses regarding stress and immune parameters were carried out. Over the course of the 6-year study nearly one third of the ...Stress, anxiety can make allergy attacks even more miserable and last longer
... s allergy attack to be much worse. The finding, the latest in more than three decades of study on stress and immunity, is important since allergic reactions are the fifth-most-common chronic disease ...Chronic stress alters our genetic immune response
... new light on one link between stress and illness by describing a mechanism through which stress alters immune function. In a very promising preliminary study, Miller and colleagues found that the ...Stress may make you itch
... related report by Joachim et al., "Stress-induced Neurogenic Inflammation in Murine Skin ... Taken together, these data suggest that stress activates immune cells, which in turn are central in initiating ...Early childhood stress has lingering effects on health
... way of assessing the competence of the immune system," Coe explains. "During times of stress or if the immune system is not appropriately regulated, the herpes virus is more likely to reactivate." A ...Short-term stress enhances anti-tumor activity in mice, Stanford study shows
... "Evolutionarily, it makes sense," said Dhabhar. "In nature, stress and immune activity are typically coupled. It's like ... resting state within a few hours of a stressful event, you'll probably be fine. ...Steroids in female mouse urine light up nose nerves of male mice
... , known as glucocorticoids (GCCs), are involved in energy metabolism, stress and immune function," says senior author Timothy E. Holy, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology and ...Intervention program boosts survival in breast cancer patients
... to subscribers online. The study is part of the long-running Stress and Immunity Breast Cancer Project at Ohio State. Participants included 227 patients who were surgically treated for ...Marital problems lead to poorer outcomes for breast cancer patients
... 100 women who have participated in the long-running Stress and Immunity Breast Cancer Project at Ohio ... measured on levels of cancer-related stress and overall stress, diet, physical activity, general ...Bipolar disorder linked to risk of early death from natural causes
... associated with bipolar illness might also be shortening lives, Katon noted. The illness can stress the immune system and the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, a system that controls many body processes. ...Ratchet-like genetic mutations make evolution irreversible
... glucocorticoid receptor (GR), which binds the hormone cortisol and regulates the stress response, immunity, metabolism and behavior in humans and other vertebrates. "This fascinating study highlights ...
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