Chris Engeland

Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Nursing

Chris Engeland

Research Summary

How stress, age, gender, and hormones affect inflammation / health. Biomarker feasibility for predicting health outcomes.

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Depression Inflammation Wounds And Injuries Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A Social Support Hydrocortisone Wound Healing Psychology African Americans C Reactive Protein Young Adult Micrornas Social Isolation Rats Cytokines Gene Expression Skin Interleukin 6 Genes Biomarkers Therapeutics Premature Birth Mandible Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate Mouth

Most Recent Papers

Inflammation and the dimensions of depression: A review.

M Majd, Erika F.H. Saunders, Christopher Engeland, 2020, Frontiers in neuroendocrinology on p. 100800

Gender differences in the link between depressive symptoms and ex vivo inflammatory responses are associated with markers of endotoxemia

Erik Knight, Marzieh Majd, Jennifer Graham, Joshua Smyth, Martin Sliwinski, Christopher Engeland, 2020, Brain, Behavior, & Immunity

Positive and Negative Affect and Salivary Markers of Inflammation Among Young Adults

Danica C. Slavish, Dusti R. Jones, Joshua Morrison Smyth, Christopher Gerald Engeland, Sunmi Song, Nolan M. McCormick, Jennifer Elis Graham-Engeland, 2019, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Salivary biomarkers in psychoneuroimmunology.

Christopher Engeland, Jos Bosch, Nicolas Rohleder, 2019, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Insomnia symptoms are associated with elevated C-reactive protein in young adults

D Slavish*, Jennifer Graham, Christopher Engeland, D Taylor, Orfeu Buxton, 2019, Psychology & health on p. 1396-1415

Insomnia symptoms are associated with elevated C-reactive protein in young adults

Danica C. Slavish, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Christopher G. Engeland, Daniel J. Taylor, Orfeu M. Buxton, 2018, Psychology and Health on p. 1396-1415

Negative and positive affect as predictors of inflammation

Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Nancy L. Sin, Joshua M. Smyth, Dusti R. Jones, Erik L. Knight, Martin J. Sliwinski, David M. Almeida, Mindy J. Katz, Richard B. Lipton, Christopher G. Engeland, 2018, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on p. 222-230

Distinct inflammatory response patterns are evident among men and women with higher depressive symptoms

Marzieh Majd, Jennifer Elis Graham-Engeland, Joshua Morrison Smyth, Martin John Sliwinski, Richard B. Lipton, Mindy J. Katz, Christopher Gerald Engeland, 2018, Physiology and Behavior on p. 108-115

Effects of dermal wounding on distal primary tumor immunobiology in mice

Leah M. Pyter, Daniel B. McKim, Yasmin Husain, Humberto Calero, Jonathan P. Godbout, John F. Sheridan, Phillip T. Marucha, Christopher G. Engeland, 2018, Journal of Surgical Research on p. 328-335

Distinct inflammatory response patterns emerge in men and women with increasing depressive symptoms

Marzieh Majd, Jennifer Graham, Joshua Smyth, Christopher Engeland, 2017,

Most-Cited Papers

Elevated Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) is associated with depressive symptoms, blunted cortisol reactivity to acute stress, and lowered morning cortisol

Kate M. Edwards, Jos A. Bosch, Christopher G. Engeland, John T. Cacioppo, Phillip T. Marucha, 2010, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on p. 1202-1208

Psychological distress and salivary secretory immunity

Christopher Gerald Engeland, F. N. Hugo, J. B. Hilgert, G. G. Nascimento, R. Junges, H. J. Lim, P. T. Marucha, J. A. Bosch, 2016, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on p. 11-17

Publication bias and its implications for evidence-based clinical decision making

John M. Crawford, Charlotte L. Briggs, Christopher G. Engeland, 2010, Journal of Dental Education on p. 593-600

The Impact of Neighborhood Environment, Social Support, andAvoidance Coping on Depressive Symptoms of Pregnant African-American Women

Carmen Giurgescu, Shannon N. Zenk, Thomas N. Templin, Christopher Gerald Engeland, Barbara L. Dancy, Chang Gi Park, Karen Kavanaugh, William Dieber, Dawn P. Misra, 2015, Women's Health Issues on p. 294-302

Age-dependent and -independent associations between depression, anxiety, DHEAS, and cortisol

Bríain Ó Hartaigh, Adrian Loerbroks, G. Neil Thomas, Christopher Gerald Engeland, Mark A. Hollands, Joachim E. Fischer, Jos A. Bosch, 2012, Psychoneuroendocrinology on p. 929-936

Social Isolation Impairs Oral Palatal Wound Healing in Sprague-Dawley Rats

Linglan Yang, Christopher G. Engeland, Bin Cheng, 2013, PloS one

The effects of social isolation on wound healing mechanisms in female mice

Leah M. Pyter, Linglan Yang, José M. da Rocha, Christopher Gerald Engeland, 2014, Physiology and Behavior on p. 64-70

MMP-8 overexpression and persistence of neutrophils relate to stress-impaired healing and poor collagen architecture in mice

Praveen K. Gajendrareddy, Christopher Gerald Engeland, Roger Junges, Michael P. Horan, Isolde G. Rojas, Phillip T. Marucha, 2013, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on p. 44-48

Relationships among psychosocial factors, biomarkers, preeclampsia, and preterm birth in African American women

Carmen Giurgescu, Natthananporn Sanguanklin, Christopher G. Engeland, Rosemary C. White-Traut, Chang Park, Herbert L. Mathews, Linda Witek Janusek, 2015, Applied Nursing Research on p. e1-e6

Radiographic considerations for the regional anatomy in the posterior mandible

Natasha Yashar, Christopher Gerald Engeland, Alan L. Rosenfeld, Timothy P. Walsh, Joseph V. Califano, 2012, Journal of Periodontology on p. 36-42