Social stress alters the severity of an animal model of multiple sclerosis

Neural and Neuroendocrine Mechanisms in Host Defense and Autoimmunity

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 216-240

  Meagher, Mary W ^a   Johnson, Robin R ^a   Good, Elisabeth ^a   Welsh, C Jane ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-48334-4_11     Document Type: Chapter

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