ArticleBrain, behavior, and immunity2024
Hormonal contraceptive use is associated with differences in women's inflammatory and psychological reactivity to an acute social stressor.
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- Linking combined oral contraceptive use to systemic immune marker profiles: the role of cortisol.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Blood biomarkers of long COVID: A cross-sectional evaluation of key cytokines and the coordination of inflammation.PloS one · 2026Article
- Combined Oral Contraceptives and the Risk of Thrombosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Sclerostin-silenced human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells ameliorate bone metabolism in steroid-induced femoral head necrosis.World journal of stem cells · 2025Article
- Hormonal contraceptives in adolescence impact the neuroimmune environment of the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in female rats.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2025Article
- Temporal dynamics of inflammatory, platelet, and neurotrophic markers during social stress in relation to suicidal ideation and suicide attempt history.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
- Hormonal Contraceptive Use and Affective Disorders: An Updated Review.Open access journal of contraception · 2025Review
- Beyond Birth Control: The Neuroscience of Hormonal Contraceptives.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Sex Differences in Stress Susceptibility as a Key Mechanism Underlying Depression Risk.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
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Abstract
Women using hormonal contraceptives (HCs) exhibit numerous signs of chronic inflammation, including elevated C-reactive protein levels and greater risk of developing mood and autoimmune disorders. However, users and non-users of HCs often have similar circulating proinflammatory cytokine levels, making the mechanism of association unclear. One possible explanation for this paradox is that HC users exhibit differences in their inflammatory responses to psychosocial stress that, over time, could contribute to chronic inflammation and its pathologies. Here, we tested this possibility by examining women's glucocorticoid, inflammatory, and psychological responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) in 67 naturally cycling (NC) and 60 oral HC-using women (M
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