Psychologic stress and asthma: neuropeptide involvement.
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Psychologic stress and asthma: neuropeptide involvement.
In a recent Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine article, Wright and Steinbach (1) highlighted the influence of psychosocial stress on asthmatic attacks. The reported case histories support basic neuroimmunologic studies, which document modulation of immune reactivities by psychologic stress, and the need to consider psychologic stress along with environmental chemical and physical stresses, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.110-a230