Cell-mediated immune response in MDMA users after repeated dose administration: Studies in controlled versus noncontrolled settings

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 965, Issue , 2002, Pages 421-433

  Pacifici, R ^a   Zuccaro, P ^a   Farre M ^b   Pichini, S ^a   Di Carlo, S ^a   Roset, P N ^b   Palmi, I ^a   Ortuno J ^b   Menoyo, E ^b   Segura, J ^b   De La Torre, R ^b,c  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA); Ecstasy; Immune dysfunction; Lymphocytes; Natural killer (NK) cells

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOCHROME P450 2D6; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DOPAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALIA; CANNABIS;

EID: 0036290082     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04183.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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