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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020

Association of the Salivary Microbiome With Animal Contact During Early Life and Stress-Induced Immune Activation in Healthy Participants.

Dominik Langgartner, Cristian A Zambrano, Jared D Heinze, Christopher E Stamper, Till S Böbel, Sascha B Hackl, Marc N Jarczok, Nicolas Rohleder, Graham A Rook, Harald Gündel and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Dominik LanggartnerLaboratory for Molecular Psychosomatics, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Cristian A ZambranoDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States.
Jared D HeinzeDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States.
Christopher E StamperDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States.
Till S BöbelLaboratory for Molecular Psychosomatics, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Sascha B HacklLaboratory for Molecular Psychosomatics, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Marc N JarczokDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Nicolas RohlederDepartment of Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.
Graham A RookCenter for Clinical Microbiology, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom.
Harald GündelDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Christiane WallerDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Christopher A LowryDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States.
Stefan O ReberLaboratory for Molecular Psychosomatics, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Universität Ulm · DEUniversity of Colorado Boulder · USFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevalence of stress-associated somatic and psychiatric disorders is increased in environments offering a narrow relative to a wide range of microbial exposure. Moreover, different animal and human studies suggest that an overreactive immune system not only accompanies stress-associated disorders, but might even be causally involved in their pathogenesis. In support of this hypothesis, we recently showed that urban upbringing in the absence of daily contact with pets, compared to rural upbringing in the presence of daily contact with farm animals, is associated with a more pronounced immune activation following acute psychosocial stressor exposure induced by the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). Here we employed 16S rRNA gene sequencing to test whether this difference in TSST-induced immune activation between urban upbringing in the absence of daily contact with pets (

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alpha diversityanimal contactbeta diversityinterleukin (IL)-6rural upbringingsalivary microbiomeTrier Social Stress Test (TSST)urban upbringing

Identifiers

PMID32457661
PMCPMC7223923
OpenAlexW3022623715

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