Post-menopausal Women Exhibit Greater Interleukin-6 Responses to Mental Stress Than Older Men

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 564-571

  Endrighi, Romano ^a,d   Hamer, Mark ^b   Steptoe, Andrew ^c  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interleukin 6; Mental stress; Pro inflammatory reactivity; Sex

Indexed keywords

IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

BLOOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84960090030     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-016-9783-y     Document Type: Article

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