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Science 15 January 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3394, pp. 159 - 160
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3394.159
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Effect of Stress on Skin Transplantation Immunity in Mice

R. Wistar Jr. 1 and W. H. Hildemann 1

1 Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Chronic avoidance-learning stress was found to depress the immune reaction responsible for skin homograft rejection to a modest but significant degree. This effect was observed in a genetically uniform as well as a heterogeneous line of mice.


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