Trial reportPsychoneuroendocrinology2015
Trait sensitivity to social disconnection enhances pro-inflammatory responses to a randomized controlled trial of endotoxin.
Trial report in Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01671150 (Inflammation-Induced Depressed Mood), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Inflammation-Induced Depressed Mood: The Role of Social Neurocognitive Mechanisms
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Sickness and the Social Brain: Love in the Time of COVID.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Consummatory deficits in close social reward predict inflammation-induced depressed mood.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Trial
- Inflammatory endotoxin challenge in individuals with alcohol use disorder and controls.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Trial
- Interleukin-8 and depressive responses to an inflammatory challenge: secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Kynurenine metabolism and inflammation-induced depressed mood: A human experimental study.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2019Trial
- Sex Differences in the Relationship Between Inflammation and Reward Sensitivity: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Endotoxin.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2019Trial
- Moderators for depressed mood and systemic and transcriptional inflammatory responses: a randomized controlled trial of endotoxin.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019Trial
- Lipopolysaccharide-induced systemic inflammation alters courtship ultrasonic vocalizations in male mice.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Social Isolation, Genetic Susceptibility, Systemic Inflammation and Risk of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A UK Biobank Cohort Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Attachment Insecurity and Well-Being in Dementia Spousal Caregivers: The Moderating Role of Marital Satisfaction.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2026Article
- Hormonal and Behavioral Consequences of Social Isolation and Loneliness: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Peer victimization in adolescence alters gene expression and cytokine profiles during transition to adulthood.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
- Sex differences in the transcriptional response to acute inflammatory challenge: A randomized controlled trial of endotoxin.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Review of Major Social Determinants of Health in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Psychotic Disorders: III. Biology.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Your suffering is my stressor: Proinflammatory gene expression rises with spousal distress in middle-aged and older couples.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on inflammatory bowel disease: The role of emotional stress and social isolation.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2022Article
- Flourishing in Healthcare Trainees: Psychological Well-Being and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Consequences of pandemic-associated social restrictions: Role of social support and the oxytocin system.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Review
- Inflammation, depressive symptoms, and emotion perception in adolescence.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Article
- Loneliness: An Immunometabolic Syndrome.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
unlabelledOne proposed mechanism for the association between social isolation and poor health outcomes is inflammation. Lonely or socially disconnected individuals show greater inflammatory responses, including up-regulation of pro-inflammatory gene expression, and people who are sensitive to cues of social disconnection (e.g., high levels of anxious attachment) exhibit greater inflammation in response to psychological stress. However, no studies have examined how sensitivity to social disconnection may influence pro-inflammatory responses to an inflammatory challenge. In the present study, we investigated the impact of sensitivity to social disconnection (a composite score comprised of loneliness, anxious attachment, fear of negative evaluation, and rejection sensitivity) on pro-inflammatory cytokines and gene expression in response to endotoxin, an inflammatory challenge, vs. placebo in a sample of one hundred and fifteen (n=115) healthy participants. Results showed that those who are more sensitive to social disconnection show increased pro-inflammatory responses (i.e., increased levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6) to endotoxin, as well as up-regulation of multiple genes related to inflammation. Furthermore, bioinformatics analyses revealed that those in the endotoxin group who are more sensitive to social disconnection exhibited a conserved transcriptional response to adversity (CTRA) regulatory profile, involving up-regulation of beta-adrenergic and pro-inflammatory transcription control pathways and down-regulation of antiviral transcription factors in response to endotoxin. These results may ultimately have implications for understanding the links between social isolation, inflammation, and health. CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01671150.
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