Stress-induced immune dysfunction: Implications for health

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 243-251

  Glaser, Ronald ^a   Kiecolt Glaser, Janice K ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STRESS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; STRESS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 14944351958     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1571     Document Type: Review

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