Relation between stressful life events, neuropeptides and cytokines: Results from the LISA birth cohort study

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 722-729

  Herberth, Gunda ^a   Weber, Annegret ^a   Röder, Stefan ^a   Elvers, Horst Dietrich ^b   Krämer, Ursula ^c   Schins, Roel P F ^c   Diez, Ulrike ^a,d   Borte, Michael ^d,e   Heinrich, Joachim ^f   Schäfer, Thomas ^g   Herbarth, Olf ^a,e   Lehmann, Irina ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c IUF LEIBNIZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d Klinikum St Georg   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Neuropeptides; Stressful life events; Th1 Th2 balance; Vasoactive intestinal peptide

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; NEUROPEPTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH2 CELL; UNEMPLOYMENT;

CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-4; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 56649124740     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: 13993038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3038.2008.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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