Effect of laughter on salivary flow rates and levels of chromogranin A in young adults and elderly people

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 494-499

  Toda, Masahiro ^a   Ichikawa, Hiroe ^b  

^a OSAKA DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fukui Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromogranin A; Laughter; Salivary flow rates; Stress; The elderly

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A;

ADULT; AGED; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SALIVA; SALIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMOGRANIN A; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LAUGHTER; MALE; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869496057     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-012-0279-5     Document Type: Article

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