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Stress Hormones, Proinflammatory and Antiinflammatory Cytokines, and Autoimmunity
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A bstract : Recent evidence indicates that glucocorticoids and catecholamines, the major stress hormones, inhibit the production of proinflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin (IL)‐12, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)‐α, and interferon (IFN)‐γ, whereas they stimulate the production of antiinflammatory cytokines, such as IL‐10, IL‐4, and transforming growth factor (TGF)‐β. Thus, systemically, an excessive immune response, through activation of the stress system, stimulates an important negative feedback mechanism, which protects the organism from an “overshoot” of proinflammatory cytokines and other products of activated macrophages with tissue‐damaging potential. Conversely, in certain local responses and under certain conditions, stress hormones actually may boost regional immune responses, through induction of TNF‐α, IL‐1, and IL‐8, and by inhibiting TGF‐β production. Therefore, conditions that are associated with significant changes in stress system activity, such as acute or chronic stress, cessation of chronic stress, severe exercise, and pregnancy and the postpartum period, through modulation of the systemic or local pro/antiinflammatory cytokine balance, may suppress or potentiate autoimmune diseases activity and/or progression.
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- ELENKOV, I. J., & CHROUSOS, G. P.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
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- ELENKOV, ILIA J.
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- CHROUSOS, GEORGE P.
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- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
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- Wiley
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- 2002-06
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- 966
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- 290-303
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- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
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- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
- Keywords
- stress hormones, glucocorticoids, catecholamines, inflammatory cytokines, autoimmunity, autoimmune disease, IL-12, TNF-α, interferon-gamma, IL-10, TGF-beta, negative feedback regulation, chronic stress, physical activity, pregnancy, postpartum period
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Autoimmune Diseases, Catecholamines, Feedback, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Glucocorticoids, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System, Macrophage Activation, Male, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Puerperal Disorders, Rats, Inbred Lew, Stress, Physiological, Sympathetic Nervous System, Neuroimmunomodulation, Autoimmunity, Cytokines, Antigen Presentation, Th1 Cells, Th2 Cells, Models, Immunological, Inflammation Mediators, Rats
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