Chronic stress and natural killer cell activity after exposure to traumatic death

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 467-476

  Delahanty, Douglas L ^a   Dougall, Angela Liegey ^a   Craig, Karrie J ^a   Jenkins, Frank J ^a   Baum, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrusive thoughts; Natural killer cell activity; Stress; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEATH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL STRESS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0030843539     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199709000-00002     Document Type: Article

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