Social stress in loser rats: Opposite immunological effects in submissive and subdominant males

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 605-613

  Stefanski, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggression; Cellular immunity; Dominance; Lymphocyte function; Rat; Social behavior; Stress; T cells

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STRESS;

EID: 0032519794     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00492-7     Document Type: Article

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