Socioeconomic position, immune function, and its physiological markers

Socioeconomic status, stress, and immune markers in adolescents with asthma.

OBJECTIVE Previous research has demonstrated links between low socioeconomic status (SES) and clinical asthma outcomes, as well as links between stress and asthma. The objective of this study was to test whether adolescents with asthma from different SES backgrounds differed in biological profiles relevant to asthma, including immune and cortisol measures. The second objective was to test wheth...

Childhood socioeconomic position and cognitive function in adulthood.

BACKGROUND Risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease is higher among adults with limited education, and the less educated perform poorer on cognitive function tests. This study determines whether the socioeconomic environment experienced during childhood has an impact on cognitive functioning in middle age. METHODS A population-based study of eastern Finnish men (n = 496) aged 58 and 64 for wh...

Institutional Repository Position statement part one : immune function and exercise

Position statement. Part one: Immune function and exercise.

An ever-growing volume of peer-reviewed publications speaks to the recent and rapid growth in both scope and understanding of exercise immunology. Indeed, more than 95% of all peer-reviewed publications in exercise immunology (currently >2, 200 publications using search terms "exercise" and "immune") have been published since the formation of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology...

Pair and its Physiological Practice

سیستم ارتباطی جنین و مادر به هنگام حاملگی از دو بازو تشکیل شده است. اولین بازو، بازوی جفتی است (Placental arm) که نقش فیزیولوژیکی نظیر تغذیه و فعالیتهای آندوکرینی را ایفاء می نماید و اجزای تشریحی آن عبارت است از خون جنین، جفت و خون مادر. دومین بازو، بازوی پاراکرینی (Paracrin-arm) است که از مهم ترین وظایف آن می توان حفظ و بقای حاملگی، قبول پیوندهای نیم آلوژنیک جنین، حفاظت جسمی جنین و امر زایمان ...