Daily psychosocial stressors interfere with the dynamics of urine neopterin in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus: An integrative single-case study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 876-882

  Schubert, Christian ^a,b   Lampe, Astrid ^a   Rumpold, Gerhard ^a   Fuchs, Dietmar ^b   König, Paul ^a   Chamson, Emil ^a   Schüssler, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Neopterin; Psychoneuroimmunology; Single case design; Stress; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

NEOPTERIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STRESS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 0032760242     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199911000-00024     Document Type: Article

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