immunity

  1. haidut

    Low Social Status Damages The Immune System

    I have posted before on the link between status and health and I think user @Such_Saturation also posted a study on reversal of dominant social status leading to serotonergic dominance. This latest study shows that it is the relative difference of social status that matters. So, even though a...
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    • chronic stress endotoxin immune system immunity inflammation lps social isolation social status tlr4
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  2. haidut

    Self-reported Health Much Better Predictor Than "objective" Tests

    I like this study for a number of reasons. First, it validates the idea that the patient knows quite well when something is plaguing them despite the current approach to ignore completely self-reported symptoms. Second, it confirms the connection between stress and inflammation, and viral...
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    • biomarker fatigue herpes immunity inflammation predictive self-report stress viral infection
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  3. Amazoniac

    Vitamin A And (Auto)immunity

    August 2010 Focus - Vitamin A: The Key to a Tolerant Immune System?: Allergy Research Group "Vitamin A is the key to the gut making the right decisions. When you are deficient in vitamin A, you veer towards a type of effector T cell called TH17 and its production of IL-17—a proinflammatory...
  4. S

    Endotoxin Stimulates Serotonin Production For Hemocyte Phagocytosis

    Serotonin modulates insect hemocyte phagocytosis via two different serotonin receptors
  5. haidut

    Immunity Is Shaped More By Environment Than By Genetics

    Study in human twins. http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/e ... cle/424259?
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