Effect of laughter on salivary endocrinological stress marker chromogranin A

Biomedical Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-118

  Toda, Masahiro ^a   Kusakabe, Shinsuke ^a   Nagasawa, Shingo ^b   Kitamura, Kazuyuki ^b   Morimoto, Kanehisa ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yanaihara Institute Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHROMOGRANIN A;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FILM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; CHROMOGRANIN A; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PICTURES; PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34249783439     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: 1880313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.28.115     Document Type: Article

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