Pregnancy and social stress in female rats: Influences on blood leukocytes and corticosterone concentrations

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 81-88

  Stefanski, Volker ^a   Raabe, Claudia ^a   Schulte, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood; Corticosterone; Leukocyte trafficking; Pregnancy; Social defeat stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; GRANULOCYTOSIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 17044415351     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2005.01.011     Document Type: Article

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