Opioid peptides mediate heat stress-induced immunosuppression during pregnancy

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 3 43-3, 1998, Pages

  Nakamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Nagase, Hirofumi ^a   Yoshida, Masami ^a   Ogino, Keiki ^a   Seto, Toshio ^b   Hatta, Kotaro ^c   Matsuzaki, Ichiyo ^d  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN BOKUTOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Natural killer cell activity; Pituitary; Placenta; Progesterone; Endorphin

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; NALOXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE PEPTIDE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEART STRESS; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031918850     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.3.r672     Document Type: Article

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