Neuroimmune relations in patients with fibromyalgia: A positron emission tomography study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 193-196

  Lekander, Mats ^a   Fredrikson, Mats ^b   Wik, Gustav ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fibromyalgia; Natural killer cell activity; Neuroimmunology; Positron emission tomography; Regional cerebral blood flow

Indexed keywords

BUTANOL; OXYGEN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034708528     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00901-0     Document Type: Article

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