Medical Assessment of the Health Effects of Short Leisure Trips

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 717-724

  Toda, Masahiro ^a   Makino, Hiroaki ^b   Kobayashi, Hidetoshi ^b   Nagasawa, Shingo ^c   Kitamura, Kazuyuki ^c   Morimoto, Kanehisa ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Japan Travel Bureau (Foundation)   (Japan)

^c Yanaihara Institute Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromogranin a (cga); Cortisol; Human saliva; Promotion of health; Short term travel tours

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALIVA; STRESS; TRAVEL;

EID: 33745252565     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039890409602958     Document Type: Article

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