Stress-induced immunosuppression and therapeutic touch

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 68-74

  Olson, Melodie ^a   Sneed, Nancee ^a   LaVia, Mariano ^a   Virella, Gabriel ^a   Bonadonna, Ramita ^a   Michel, Yvonne ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TOUCH;

ADULT; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOUCH;

EID: 0031093253     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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