'Dominance' personality trait and immune system in healthy volunteers

Human Psychopharmacology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 183-189

  Meyer, F P ^a,c   Troger U ^a   Ansorge, S ^b   Ittenson, A ^b   Bank, U ^b   Buhling F ^b   Lauter J ^c   Rohl F W ^c  

^a Institute of Clinical Chemistry   (Germany)

^b Inst of Exp Internal Medicine   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Healthy volunteers; Immunology; Personality

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031955747     PISSN: 08856222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1077(199804)13:3<183::AID-HUP967>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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