Project 438323
Linking neonatal stress and anomalies of immune development in rats: novel insights into the origin of sex-based differences in viral infection severity.
Linking neonatal stress and anomalies of immune development in rats: novel insights into the origin of sex-based differences in viral infection severity.
Project Information
| Study Type: | Unclear |
| Research Theme: | Biomedical |
Institution & Funding
| Principal Investigator(s): | Lauzon-Joset, Jean-François |
| Co-Investigator(s): | Kinkead, Richard; Marsolais, David |
| Institution: | Université Laval |
| CIHR Institute: | Gender and Health |
| Program: | |
| Peer Review Committee: | Gender, Sex & Health |
| Competition Year: | 2020 |
| Term: | 1 yr 0 mth |
Abstract Summary
Psychological stress can reshape how the brain communicates with our immune system. We have reasons to believe that psychological stress occurring soon after birth rewires the immune system differently in men and women; and that these modifications may last for life. Our research is thus dedicated to understand the mechanisms that cause these differences, and how these modifications may increase the severity of infections differently in men and women. By, understanding these differences, we hope define better approaches to efficiently reduce the severity of diseases caused by infections for everyone.
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