Effects of sexual arousal on lymphocyte subset circulation and cytokine production in man

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 293-298

  Haake, Philip ^a   Krueger, Tillmann H C ^a   Goebel, Marion U ^a   Heberling, Katharina M ^a   Hartmann, Uwe ^b   Schedlowski, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catecholamine; Cortisol; Lymphocytes; Natural killer cells; Prolactin; Sexual activity

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CD16 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROLACTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; MASTURBATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; ORGASM; SEXUALITY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 4444312745     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079409     Document Type: Article

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