Handedness is associated with immune functioning and behavioural reactivity in rhesus macaques

Laterality

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 359-369

  Westergaard, Gregory Charles ^a   Suomi, S J ^a   Higley, J D ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; MARKER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HANDEDNESS; HELPER CELL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RODENT; SUPPRESSOR CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THREAT;

EID: 0036799809     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500143000230     Document Type: Article

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