14th German Endocrine Brain Immune Network, GEBIN

ABSTRACT

The proceedings contain 48 papers. The topics discussed include mental and physical health in informal caregiving and associations with relationship quality between caregiver and care recipient - a pilot study;immune-mediated early endocrine response during tumorigenesis;characterization of circulating dendritic cells in major depressive disorder;immune age correlates with cardiorespiratory fitness, but not with general intelligence;investigation of the relationship between immune age and vaccination against SARS-CoV-2;the steroid hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) counteracts the consequences of psychological trauma on immunocellular ageing and mitochondrial bioenergetics;prediction of antibody levels after COVD-19 vaccination evidence for immune interoception;and temporal dynamics of cytokine changes in blood, cerebrospinal fluid and brain tissue of endotoxemic rats.