Pawsitive impact: How pet contact ameliorates adult inflammatory stress responses in individuals raised in an urban environment
Together, the presence of pets seems to reduce the risk for URBANs to develop stress-associated disorders later in life (i.e., primary prevention) by facilitating immunoregulatory and barrier functions, in turn preventing an overshooting immune activation in response to acute stressors and chronic low-grade inflammation in response to repeated/chronic stressors.
Authors
- Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5619-1123)
- Katja Weimer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8656-607X)
- Christopher A. Lowry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3920-5575)
- Hans A. Kestler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4759-5254)
- Markus Huber‐Lang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2359-6516)
- Heike Tost (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7339-7569)
- Nicolas Rohleder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2602-517X)
- Alexander Groß (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5641-0680)
- Andreas H. Luippold
- Marc N. Jarczok (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6055-385X)
- John Sterrett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0931-7181)
- Dominik Langgartner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8252-8658)
- Harald Gündel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7827-320X)
- Stefan O. Reber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1583-7618)
- Jonas Brunner-Weisser
- Raphael Winkler
- Marco Mannes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4875-8275)
- Besnik Bajrami
Institutions
- Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany) (DE)
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE)
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Universität Ulm (DE)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- University Hospital Heidelberg (DE)
- Central Institute of Mental Health (DE)
- University Hospital Ulm (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Brain Behavior and Immunity
- Published
- 2025-03-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.03.013
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.63
Funders
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg