Influence of prenatal psychosocial stress on cytokine production in adult women

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 579-587

  Entringer, Sonja ^a,b   Kumsta, Robert ^a   Nelson, Edward L ^b   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^a   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^b   Wüst, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Prenatal stress; Psychosocial; Th1; Th2

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIFE EVENT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MENTAL STRESS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRENATAL STRESS; QUESTIONNAIRE; TH2 CELL;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CYTOKINES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKINS; LEUKOCYTES; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LYMPHOCYTES; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 52249103067     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20316     Document Type: Article

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