Cell-mediated immune hypersensitivity is stronger in the left side of the body than the right in healthy young subjects

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 329-332

  Dane, Şenol ^a   Erdem, Teoman ^b   Gümüştekin, Kenan ^b  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; NEOCORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LATERALITY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; TUBERCULIN TEST;

EID: 0035488408     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2001.93.2.329     Document Type: Article

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