Perceived Stress and Cellular Immunity: When Coping Counts

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 323-339

  Stowell, Jeffrey R ^a,b   Kiecolt Glaser, Janice K ^a   Glaser, Ronald ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Avoidance; Psychoimmunology; Psychoneuroimmunology

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CONCANAVALIN A; MITOGENIC AGENT; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; STRESS; T LYMPHOCYTE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AWARENESS; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY HEALTH; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; IMMUNOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; AWARENESS; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONCANAVALIN A; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0035434219     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010630801589     Document Type: Article

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