RESEARCH ARTICLE Hair and stress: A pilot study of hair and cytokine balance alteration in healthy young women under major exam stress Eva M. J. Peters1,2*, Yvonne MuÈller2, Wenke Snaga1, Herbert Fliege3, Anett Reiûhauer4, Thomas Schmidt-Rose5, Heiner Max5, Dorothea Schweiger5, Matthias Rose1, Johannes Kruse2 1 UniversitaÈtsmedizin ChariteÂ, Center 12 for Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Division for General Internal Medicine, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy: Psycho-Neuro-Immunology Skin Research a1111111111 Group, Berlin, Germany, 2 Justus-Liebig-University, Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, a1111111111 Psychoneuroimmunology Laboratory, Gieûen, Germany, 3 Foreign Office, Health Service, Psychosocial a1111111111 Counseling, AuswaÈrtiges Amt, Berlin, Germany, 4 UniversitaÈtsmedizin ChariteÂ, Center 12 for Internal a1111111111 Medicine and Dermatology, Division for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Berlin, Germany, 5 Beiersdorf a1111111111 AG, Hamburg, Germany *
[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Abstract Citation: Peters EMJ, MuÈller Y, Snaga W, Fliege H, Mouse models show that experimental stress mimicking prolonged life-stress exposure Reiûhauer A, Schmidt-Rose T, et al. (2017) Hair and stress: A pilot study of hair and cytokine enhances neurogenic inflammation, induces adaptive immunity cytokine-imbalance character- balance alteration in healthy young women under ized by a shift to Type 1 T-helper cell cytokines and increases apoptosis of epithelial cells. This major exam stress. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0175904. affects