| Literature DB >> 19942299 |
M L Palumbo1, M C Canzobre, C G Pascuan, H Ríos, M Wald, A M Genaro.
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This work shows a comparative study on the effects of chronic mild stress upon learning and memory and immunity, in BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice. Stressed BALB/c, but not C57Bl/6 mice, showed a poor learning performance, morphological alterations in the hippocampus with an increase in oxidative stress. A correlation between poor memory performance and the increase of the Th2/Th1 balance was found. Our results suggest that vulnerability to cognitive deficit associated with stress exposition could be related to a differential regulation of Th1/Th2 cytokine balance, suggesting a better learning performance for individuals that produce Th1 type cytokine after stress exposition. Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19942299 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2009.11.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neuroimmunol ISSN: 0165-5728 Impact factor: 3.478