Stress-induced neuroimmune priming in males and females: Comparable but not identical

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¹ Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
² Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States; Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States. Electronic address: gretchen.mccandless@vcuhealth.org.

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Mandakh Bekhbat et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2018 Oct.

. 2018 Oct:73:149-150.

doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2018.05.001. Epub 2018 May 10.

¹ Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
² Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States; Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States. Electronic address: gretchen.mccandless@vcuhealth.org.

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Neuroinflammatory priming to stress is differentially regulated in male and female rats.
Fonken LK, Frank MG, Gaudet AD, D'Angelo HM, Daut RA, Hampson EC, Ayala MT, Watkins LR, Maier SF. Fonken LK, et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2018 May;70:257-267. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2018.03.005. Epub 2018 Mar 7. Brain Behav Immun. 2018. PMID: 29524458 Free PMC article.

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