The effects of psychological stress on leukocyte subset distribution in humans: Evidence of immune activation

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-9

  Maes, Michael ^a,b   Van Bockstaele, Dirk R ^f   Van Gastel, Ann ^a   Song, Cai ^a,c   Schotte, Chris ^a   Neels, Hugo ^d   DeMeester, Ingrid ^f   Scharpe, Simon ^f   Janca, Aleksander ^e  

^a Stuivenberg General Hospital   (Belgium)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Laboratory of Clinical Biology   (Belgium)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Academic examination stress; CD26; Cytokines; Immune status; Leukocytes

Indexed keywords

CD19 ANTIGEN; CD2 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; HLA DR ANTIGEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032958055     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026552     Document Type: Article

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