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SUBMITTER: Gurfein BT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3388136 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gurfein Blake T BT Stamm Andrew W AW Bacchetti Peter P Dallman Mary F MF Nadkarni Nachiket A NA Milush Jeffrey M JM Touma Chadi C Palme Rupert R Di Borgo Charles Pozzo CP Fromentin Gilles G Lown-Hecht Rachel R Konsman Jan Pieter JP Acree Michael M Premenko-Lanier Mary M Darcel Nicolas N Hecht Frederick M FM Nixon Douglas F DF
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 20120509
Chronic stress is associated with negative health outcomes and is linked with neuroendocrine changes, deleterious effects on innate and adaptive immunity, and central nervous system neuropathology. Although stress management is commonly advocated clinically, there is insufficient mechanistic understanding of how decreasing stress affects disease pathogenesis. Therefore, we have developed a "calm mouse model" with caging enhancements designed to reduce murine stress. Male BALB/c mice were divided ...[more]