ReviewPhysiological reviews2019
The Sleep-Immune Crosstalk in Health and Disease.
Review in Physiological reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06341374 (Impact of Sleep Disorders on Innate Immunity in COVID-19 Patients. A Cohort Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 754 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Impact of Sleep Disorders on Innate Immunity in COVID-19 Patients. A Cohort Study
Who cites it
754 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,370 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Sleep Deprivation, Cytokine Dysregulation, and the Risk of Cardiac Arrhythmia in Dogs.Veterinary medicine and science · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of Experimental Sleep Deprivation on Peripheral Inflammation: An Updated Meta-Analysis of Human Studies.Journal of sleep research · 2026Pooled it
- From factory floors to dream doors: a systematic review of sleep interventions in industrial workers.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- A network meta-analysis of commercial Chinese polyherbal preparations for insomnia in the elderly: focusing on sleep quality and the neuro-immune axis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Pooled it
- A novel application of stellate ganglion block to improve sleep: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Restoring circadian homeostasis is associated with immune-metabolic recovery and medium-term oncologic outcomes after rectal cancer surgery: a prospective randomized trial.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Trial
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia May Improve Sleep and Pain in Crohn's Disease: A Waitlist Control Pilot Trial.Inflammatory bowel diseases · 2026Trial
- Esketamine improves postoperative sleep quality in thoracic surgery patients with preoperative sleep disturbance: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Trial
- The Effect of Low-Dose Acetylsalicylic Acid on Cellular Immune Responses to Experimental Sleep Restriction in Healthy Humans.Neuroimmunomodulation · 2026Trial
- Bilateral transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of insomnia in breast cancer.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Longitudinal changes in sleep quality in male patients with alcohol dependence receiving far-infrared ray therapy: associations with alterations in circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Group-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Reduce Psychological Distress and Improve Sleep in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial (MindIBD).Inflammatory bowel diseases · 2025Trial
- Impact of automated insulin delivery on subjective and objective sleep in children and young adults with very high HbA1c: Sleep outcomes from the CO-PILOT randomised controlled trial.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2025Trial
- Inflammatory exposures in early pregnancy and multidimensional sleep in late pregnancy: a prospective population-based study.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Sleep fragmentation and heightened inflammation: A latent profile subtype predicting nine-year major depressive disorder severity in the MIDUS study.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Phenotypic Variability in Slow-Wave Sleep in Depression: Associations With Clinical Profiles and Disorder Severity.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Slow Wave Activity During Nocturnal Sleep in Hypersomnolence Disorder.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Peripheral Inflammation and Sleep Loss Induce Coordinated Motivational Changes: An Experimental Two-Hit Stress Model.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Critically Ill Children Show Disrupted Sleep Patterns and Atypical Electroencephalograms: An Observational Cohort Study.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Observational
694 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Sleep and immunity are bidirectionally linked. Immune system activation alters sleep, and sleep in turn affects the innate and adaptive arm of our body's defense system. Stimulation of the immune system by microbial challenges triggers an inflammatory response, which, depending on its magnitude and time course, can induce an increase in sleep duration and intensity, but also a disruption of sleep. Enhancement of sleep during an infection is assumed to feedback to the immune system to promote host defense. Indeed, sleep affects various immune parameters, is associated with a reduced infection risk, and can improve infection outcome and vaccination responses. The induction of a hormonal constellation that supports immune functions is one likely mechanism underlying the immune-supporting effects of sleep. In the absence of an infectious challenge, sleep appears to promote inflammatory homeostasis through effects on several inflammatory mediators, such as cytokines. This notion is supported by findings that prolonged sleep deficiency (e.g., short sleep duration, sleep disturbance) can lead to chronic, systemic low-grade inflammation and is associated with various diseases that have an inflammatory component, like diabetes, atherosclerosis, and neurodegeneration. Here, we review available data on this regulatory sleep-immune crosstalk, point out methodological challenges, and suggest questions open for future research.
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