Theoretical accounts of Gulf War Syndrome: From environmental toxins to psychoneuroimmunology and neurodegeneration

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 133-147

  Ferguson, Eamonn ^a   Cassaday, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Gulf War Syndrome; Interleukin 1; Neurodegeneration; Pavlovian conditioning; Stress

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NERVE DEGENERATION; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STRESS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0035782847     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2002/418758     Document Type: Article

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