Depression and immunity: Clinical factors and therapeutic course

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-69

  Schleifer, Steven J ^a   Keller, Steven E ^a   Bartlett, Jacqueline A ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Longitudinal; Major depression; Mitogen; NK activity; Psychoneuroimmunology

Indexed keywords

TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ANTIGENS, CD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0033580030     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(98)00133-4     Document Type: Article

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