Effects of acute and chronic social stress on blood cellular immunity in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 733-741

  Stefanski, Volker ^a   Engler, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD4 T helper cells; Cellular immunity; Confrontation; Lymphocyte proliferation; Rats; Stress, acute and chronic; Subdominance; Subsets

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CONCANAVALIN A;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0032122317     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00127-9     Document Type: Article

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