Chronic caregiving stress alters peripheral blood immune parameters: The role of age and severity of stress

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 199-207

  Pariante, Carmine M ^a   Carpiniello, Bernardo ^b   Orrù, M Germana ^b   Sitzia, Rossella ^b   Piras, Alessandra ^b   Farci, A M Giulia ^b   Giacco, G Sergio Del ^b   Piludu, Giovanna ^b   Millera, Andrew H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Family burden; Herpesvirus; Immune system; Lymphocyte subsets; Psychological stress; Psychoneuroimmunology

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SUPPRESSOR CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0030845068     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000289135     Document Type: Article

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