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Massage-like stroking boosts the immune system in mice

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Major, Benjamin
Rattazzi, Lorenza
Brod, Samuel
Pilipović, Ivan
Leposavić, Gordana
D'Acquisto, Fulvio
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Recent clinical evidence suggests that the therapeutic effect of massage involves the immune system and that this can be exploited as an adjunct therapy together with standard drug-based approaches. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms behind these effects exploring the immunomodulatory function of stroking as a surrogate of massage-like therapy in mice. C57/BL6 mice were stroked daily for 8 days either with a soft brush or directly with a gloved hand and then analysed for differences in their immune repertoire compared to control non-stroked mice. Our results show that hand-but not brush-stroked mice demonstrated a significant increase in thymic and splenic T cell number (p lt 0.05; p lt 0.01). These effects were not associated with significant changes in CD4/CD8 lineage commitment or activation profile. The boosting effects on T cell repertoire of massage-like therapy were associated with a decreased noradrenergic innervation of lymphoid organs and counteracted the immun...osuppressive effect of hydrocortisone in vivo. Together our results in mice support the hypothesis that massage-like therapies might be of therapeutic value in the treatment of immunodeficiencies and related disorders and suggest a reduction of the inhibitory noradrenergic tone in lymphoid organs as one of the possible explanations for their immunomodulatory function.

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Scientific Reports, 2015, 5
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  • Nature Publishing Group, London

DOI: 10.1038/srep10913

ISSN: 2045-2322

PubMed: 26046935

WoS: 000355864900001

Scopus: 2-s2.0-84930620475
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Major, B., Rattazzi, L., Brod, S., Pilipović, I., Leposavić, G.,& D'Acquisto, F.. (2015). Massage-like stroking boosts the immune system in mice. in Scientific Reports
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https://doi.org/10.1038/srep10913
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Major B, Rattazzi L, Brod S, Pilipović I, Leposavić G, D'Acquisto F. Massage-like stroking boosts the immune system in mice. in Scientific Reports. 2015;5.
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