Analysis of a new neuroimmune stress pathway in spinal cord injury Hasselt University
Pre-operative stress has become an inevitable part of patients life. The outcome of stress exposure depends partly on the duration: acute stress exposure leads to immune activation, whereas chronic stress is immunosuppressive. Thermal stress in humans affects catecholamine and cortisol levels, major mediators of the two canonical pathways in a stress response. Increasing evidence points to a third stress pathway mediated by the immune system ...