Psychological stress and immunoprotection versus immunopathology in the skin

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-30

  Dhabhar, Firdaus S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3ALPHA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE STRESS; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC STRESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MELANOMA; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSORIASIS; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN DISEASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TH1 TH2 BALANCE; TH17 CELL;

CYTOKINES; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LEUKOCYTES; SKIN DISEASES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84871096149     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: 18791131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2011.11.003     Document Type: Note

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