Depression: Monocytes on my mind.

Immunity

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. Electronic address:

Published: April 2024

Activation of the peripheral immune system contributes to stress-related neuropsychiatric symptoms. Recently in Nature, Cathomas et al. demonstrate that stress-induced social avoidance is mediated by monocyte-derived MMP8 that remodels the extracellular space of the nucleus accumbens.

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