Skin rubdown with a dry towel activates natural killer cells in bedridden old patients

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2002, Pages

  Iwama, Hiroshi ^a   Akama, Yoichi ^a  

^a Central Aizu General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immune system; Leukocyte; Lymphocyte; Natural killer cell; Skin rubdown

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MASSAGE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MASSAGE; NEUTROPHILS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18344410274     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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