Immune responses during an antarctic summer

Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 186-190

  Muller, H Konrad ^a   Lugg, Desmond J ^b   Ursin, Holger ^c   Quinn, Dennis ^a   Donovan, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Anxiety; Cell Mediated Immunity (CMI); Immune responses; Isolation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PEPTIDE; COMPLEMENT; CYTOKINE; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TETANUS ANTIBODY;

ANTARCTICA; ANTIBODY TITER; ANXIETY; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE STATUS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; STRESS; SUMMER; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRAVEL;

ADULT; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ANXIETY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; COMPLEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029007076     PISSN: 00313025     EISSN: 14653931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00313029500169852     Document Type: Article

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