Immune Responses to Final Exams in Healthy and Asthmatic Adolescents

Nursing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-19

  Kang, Duck Hee ^a   Coe, Christopher L ^b   McCarthy, Donna O ^b   Ershler, William B ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NATURAL KILLER CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030638196     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-199701000-00003     Document Type: Article

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