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research updates: immune function

Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.

Issue 123

MEYDANI and HAN, Nutritional Immunology Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA, simin.meydani@tufts.edu, have reviewed (105 references) vitamin E and immune functioning in the elderly... more

Issue 89

FERGUSON and CASSADAY, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK, eamonn.ferguson@nottingham.ac.uk, give theoretical accounts of Gulf War Syndrome from environmental toxins to psychoneuroimmunology and neurodegeneration.... more

Issue 39

BENNETT and colleagues, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia explored the longitudinal relationships between physical and psychological symptoms and immune factors following acute infectious illness .... more

BENSCHOP and colleagues, The National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado, USA performed a meta-analysis in order to describe the relationships between cardiovascular and natural killer (NK) cell number changes and acute psychological stre... more

Issue 39 cont'd

BROSSCHOT and colleagues, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. KPBROSSCHOT@MACMAIL.PSY.UVA.NL write that although stressor uncontrollability has been demonstrated to suppress immune responses in animals and people, r... more

MARUCHA and colleagues, Periodontology, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus USA. Marucha.1@osu.edu write that wound healing impairment is a well-recognised constellation of conditions altering immune function, which include diabetes,... more

RAVINDRAN and colleagues, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ontario Canada write that there have been inconsistent results reported regarding circulating lymphocyte subsets in depression. The authors assessed lymphocyte subsets in order to es... more

Issue 37

DUDDUKURI and colleagues, Department of Biochemistry, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India studied the immunomodulatory activity of honey.... more

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