Relationships of climatic data to immune and hematologic variables in normal human

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-136

  Maes, Michael ^a,b,c,e   De Meyer, Frans ^d  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Clinical Research Center for Mental Health of Antwerp   (Belgium)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cellular immunity; Climate; Hematology; Seasonal variation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; RAIN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ERYTHROCYTE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMIDITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NORMAL HUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUNLIGHT; THROMBOCYTE; TIME; WEATHER; WIND;

EID: 0034033120     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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