1. Regulation of NK Cells During Acute Psychological Stress by Noradrenaline
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Reinhold E. Schmidt, Thomas O.F. Wagner, Uwe Tewes, Manfred Schedlowski, and Roland Jacobs
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medicine.anatomical_structure ,business.industry ,Natural Killer Cell Activity ,Immunology ,Medicine ,Psychological stress ,Cancer ,business ,medicine.disease_cause ,medicine.disease ,Cell function ,Lymphocyte subsets ,Natural killer cell - Abstract
Stress has been suggested for a long time to be associated with a decrease in natural killer (NK) activity. There is also accumulating evidence from psychoneuroimmunological research1 that stress situations such as examination2,3 or bereavement4 may alter a wide range of immunological functions, especially NK cell function. Moreover, increased incidence of viral infections or cancer have been reported in stressed populations5,6.
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- 1994
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