Trial reportNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2019
Moderators for depressed mood and systemic and transcriptional inflammatory responses: a randomized controlled trial of endotoxin.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Endogenous mu-opioid modulation of social connection in humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Translational psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Inflammation and depression in young people: a systematic review and proposed inflammatory pathways.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Consummatory deficits in close social reward predict inflammation-induced depressed mood.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Trial
- Inflammation-induced depressed mood and reward responsivity as a function of age in female adults: a randomized controlled trial of endotoxin.Translational psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Interleukin-8 and depressive responses to an inflammatory challenge: secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Intravenous administration of LPS activates the kynurenine pathway in healthy male human subjects: a prospective placebo-controlled cross-over trial.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2021Trial
- Kynurenine metabolism and inflammation-induced depressed mood: A human experimental study.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2019Trial
- Higher Lipopolysaccharide Levels Are Linked to Less Anhedonia and Lower Severity of Major Depressive Disorder.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Inflammatory models of depression in rodents and humans.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Role of Dietary Polyphenols in NAD+-Dependent Deacetylase SIRT 1 in Stress-Induced Depression.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Interleukin-6 moderates the relationship between social support, strain, and future depressive symptoms.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
- The Physical Condition and Mental Health of Chinese College Students 3 Months After COVID-19 Recovery.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2024Article
- Distress and inflammation are independently associated with cancer-related symptom severity.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Sex differences in the transcriptional response to acute inflammatory challenge: A randomized controlled trial of endotoxin.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Depressed, stressed, and inflamed: C-reactive protein linked with depression symptoms in midlife women with both childhood and current life stress.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Article
- Sex-specific associations between plasma interleukin-6 and depression in persons with and without HIV.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Article
- Human social genomics: Concepts, mechanisms, and implications for health.Lifestyle medicine (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Sleep and Healthy Aging Research on Depression (SHARE-D) randomized controlled trial: Protocol overview of an experimental model of depression with insomnia, inflammation, and affect mechanisms in older adults.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Article
- Liposaccharide-induced sustained mild inflammation fragments social behavior and alters basolateral amygdala activity.Psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- The role of the oxytocin system in the resilience of patients with breast cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Activation of the innate immune system is thought to contribute to depression. Multiple social and behavioral factors are also known to instigate depression. Whether these socio-behavioral factors interact with inflammatory stimuli to alter proinflammatory responses and depressed mood is not known. In 115 healthy adults, social, emotional, and behavioral factors were assessed at baseline. A single infusion of endotoxin (Escherichia coli; 0.8 ng/kg of body weight) or placebo (0.9% saline) was administered with hourly assessment of depressed mood and proinflammatory cytokines (interleukin-6 (IL-6); tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF)). Inflammatory gene expression was examined at 30 min after infusion, prior to increase of inflammatory cytokines. As compared to placebo, endotoxin-induced increases of depressed mood were moderated by baseline levels of perceived stress, trait sensitivity to social disconnection, and severity of symptoms of anxiety and depression (all Ps < 0.05) but not early life stress, social status, social support, neuroticism, or sleep disturbance. Anxiety symptoms remained significant in multivariable analyses (P < 0.01). None of these socio-behavioral factors were related to increases in proinflammatory cytokines. Transcriptome profiling analyses indicated that perceived stress, sensitivity to social disconnection, and depressive symptoms were associated with increased activation of pro-inflammatory transcription control pathways (i.e., activator protein-1, nuclear factor-κB) in response to endotoxin (all Ps < 0.05). These results indicate that an array of socio-behavioral factors, which are associated with depression risk, modify vulnerability to inflammation-induced depressed mood. Together, these observations may be used to help target therapeutic interventions to mitigate occurrence of the inflammatory biotype of depression.
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