Disease relevance of Social Conditions

• The social conditions of 73 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) were studied in relation to the most common neurological disorders observed among them [1].

High impact information on Social Conditions

• In monkeys consuming the cholesterol-lowering diet, the change in artery diameter was +2 +/- 4% in stable and -10 +/- 4% in unstable social conditions (p less than 0.05) despite a similar plaque size (0.4 +/- 0.2 and 0.5 +/- 0.1 mm2) and total plasma cholesterol concentrations (179 +/- 9 and 172 +/- 6 mg/dl), respectively [2].
• Social condition had a significant effect on the responses of serum cortisol and plasma ACTH to CRF administration [3].
• Diazepam had no effect on the total amount of time subjects spent in social conditions; however, the low dose increased verbal interaction, while the high dose decreased verbal interaction [4].
• There was a species-specific effect of social condition on extracellular dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) [5].
• Social stress differentially regulates neuroendocrine responses in laying hens: I. Genetic basis of dopamine responses under three different social conditions [6].

Associations of Social Conditions with chemical compounds

• Rats isolated from all social contact from an early preweaning time showed reduced basal plasma corticosterone concentrations, compared with littermate controls raised under social conditions [7].
• These results extend previous reports that the behavioral effects of ethanol depend upon the social condition in which it is consumed [8].
• However, unlike TP males in a previous study, neither females nor initial phase males responded to AVT treatment with increases in display of TP male typical behaviors when under social conditions that inhibit sex change [9].
• Plasma progesterone concentrations were recorded during one breeding season in 19 lesser mouse lemur females living in different social conditions [10].
• Taken together, our data support the hypothesis that social conditions affect the anxiolytic efficacy of buspirone [11].

Gene context of Social Conditions

• The reinforcing and subjective effects of two doses of ethanol [0.5 g/kg (LOW) and 0.8 g/kg (HIGH)] were evaluated under two conditions, a social condition (SOC), in which subjects were tested with two or three other subjects, and a socially isolated condition (ISO), in which subjects were tested alone [8].
• In contrast, decrease of spine density within ANC as a consequence of transferring birds from a social condition into isolation is very slow, lasting about 3 weeks [12].
• Results of personality characteristics obtained on the EPI junior test of the children with epilepsy were compared to the results of "normal" school children matched by age, sex and social conditions [13].
• The delineation methods are numerous; nonetheless, the uniqueness of the hydrogeological, institutional as well as social conditions in the Nile Delta region dictate a customized approach [14].
• Although psychiatric diagnoses are influenced by cultural and social conditions, with large global variations, the ICD and DSM systems are applied worldwide [15].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Social Conditions

• The animals living in the 'stable social' conditions had: (1) a lower number of hippocampal type I corticosteroid receptors; (2) a longer duration of the increase in plasma corticosterone after exposure to novelty; (3) a higher vulnerability to acquire amphetamine self-administration [16].
• Improving diabetic control in adverse social conditions. A home blood glucose monitoring study in Soweto, South Africa [17].

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