State Anxiety and Pathogen Cues Jointly Promote Social Cognitive Responses to Pathogen Threats

STAT2-directed pathogen responses

Interferons (IFNs) are a subset of cytokines that mediate innate immune responses and provide a robust first line of defense against invading pathogens. IFNs represent a family of molecules which can be divided into three main sub-families: Type I, Type II and Type III [1]. Type I IFNs predominantly consist of IFNα and IFNβ subtypes, Type II consists of the single IFNγ type, while Type III comp...

Pathogen Reduction of Plasma

Pathogen Transmission in Social Animals

Barber-Meyer, S., White, P., and Mech, D. 2007. Survey of selected pathogens and blood parameters of Northern Yellowstone elk: wolf sanitation effect implications. The American Midland Naturalist. 158 (2): 369-381. Wildlife Biologists work with one of the world’s top wolf specialists to explore the potential for using the wolf sanitation effect to manage elk disease. Specifically, this study ex...

Proteome analysis of host-pathogen interactions: Investigation of pathogen responses to the host cell environment.

Infectious diseases are still a major health risk, and thus a better understanding of the interaction between human host cells and pathogenic microbes is urgently required. Since the interplay between both partners is highly complex, genome-wide analysis by OMICs approaches will likely make a major contribution to the elucidation of the pathophysiology of infection processes. In the concert of ...

Social and Representational Cues Jointly Influence Spatial Perspective-Taking

We examined how social cues (the conversational partner's viewpoint) and representational ones (the intrinsic structure of a spatial layout) jointly shape people's spatial memory representations and their subsequent descriptions. In 24 pairs, Directors studied an array with a symmetrical structure while either knowing their Matcher's subsequent viewpoint or not. During the subsequent descriptio...