Stress hormones or general well-being are not altered in immune-deficient mice lacking either T- and B- lymphocytes or Interferon gamma signaling if kept under specific pathogen free housing conditions

• Sarah Jeuthe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Animal Facility of the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

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• Josephine Kemna,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Gene Therapy and Molecular Immunology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Immunology, Charité Campus Berlin Buch, Berlin, Germany

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• Christoph Philipp Kemna,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Charité Campus Berlin Buch, Berlin, Germany

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• Dario Zocholl,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institut für Biometrie und Klinische Epidemiologie, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany

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• Robert Klopfleisch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Free University, Berlin, Germany

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• Rupert Palme,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Unit of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Experimental Endocrinology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9466-3662

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• Clemens Kirschbaum,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Technical University, Dresden, Germany

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• Christa Thoene-Reineke ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Institute for Animal Welfare, Animal Behavior and Laboratory Animal Science, Free University, Berlin, Germany

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• Thomas Kammertoens

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: thomas.kammertoens@charite.de

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Gene Therapy and Molecular Immunology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Immunology, Charité Campus Berlin Buch, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3309-5141

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