Short-term stress enhances cellular immunity and increases early resistance to squamous cell carcinoma

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-137

  Dhabhar, Firdaus S ^a,b,c   Saul, Alison N ^d   Daugherty, Christine ^d   Holmes, Tyson H ^a   Bouley, Donna M ^b,c   Oberyszyn, Tatiana M ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell mediated immunity; Cutaneous T cell attracting chemokine (CTACK); Immune cells; Psychological stress; Skin cancer tumor; Th1 Th2 cytokines

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CUTANEOUS T CELL ATTRACTING CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; RANTES;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STRESS; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COUNT; CHEMOKINES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MICE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 72049133158     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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