Effects of a traditional Taiji/Qigong curriculum on older adults' immune response to influenza vaccine

Medicine and Sport Science

Volumn 52, Issue , 2008, Pages 64-76

  Yang, Y ^a,b   Verkuilen, J ^a   Rosengren, K ^a   Mariani, R ^a   Reed, M ^a,b   Grubisich, S ^b   Woods, J ^a   Schlagal, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Center for Taiji Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BREATHING EXERCISE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; TAI CHI;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BREATHING EXERCISES; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; MALE; TAI JI;

EID: 49449100298     PISSN: 02545020     EISSN: 16622812     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000134285     Document Type: Article

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