The Role of Stress and Opioids as Regulators of the Immune Response

Psychoneuroendocrine Influences on Immunocompetence and Neoplasia

1981 • 763 citations

Suggestive Evidence for Receptors for Morphine and Methionine-Enkephalin on Normal Human Blood T Lymphocytes

1979 • 574 citations

Enhancement of natural cytotoxicity by beta-endorphin.

1983 • 457 citations

Opioid Peptides and Opioid Receptors in Cells of the Immune System

1988 • 436 citations

Specific receptor for the opioid peptide dynorphin: structure--activity relationships.

1981 • 411 citations

beta-Endorphin enhances lymphocyte proliferative responses.

1982 • 393 citations

Corticotropin releasing factor induction of leukocyte-derived immunoreactive ACTH and endorphins

1986 • 361 citations

Lower prevalence of breast cancer and cancers of the reproductive system among former college athletes compared to non-athletes

1985 • 326 citations

Beta-endorphin and met-enkephalin stimulate human peripheral blood mononuclear cell chemotaxis.

1984 • 292 citations

Activation of Mouse T-Helper Cells Induces Abundant Preproenkephalin mRNA Synthesis

1986 • 269 citations

Pro-opiomelanocortin messenger ribonucleic acid and posttranslational processing of beta endorphin in spleen macrophages.

1986 • 221 citations

beta-Endorphin augments the cytolytic activity and interferon production of natural killer cells.

1986 • 213 citations

SPRUE AGAIN

1975 • 198 citations

SEDENTARY JOBS AND COLON CANCER

1986 • 197 citations

Endorphins stimulate normal human peripheral blood lymphocyte natural killer activity

1984 • 189 citations

Neuropeptides: Conductors of the immune orchestra

1987 • 188 citations

Opioid-mediated suppression of interferon-gamma production by cultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

1987 • 186 citations

OPIOID PEPTIDES RAPIDLY STIMULATE SUPEROXIDE PRODUCTION BY HUMAN POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES AND MACROPHAGES

1985 • 176 citations

Involvement of dynorphin and the kappa opioid receptor in feeding

1983 • 170 citations

Neuroimmunomodulation with enkephalins: Enhancement of human natural killer (NK) cell activity in vitro

1984 • 136 citations

Opiate receptor-mediated chemotaxis of human monocytes

1985 • 124 citations

The effect of acute exercise on natural killer-cell activity of trained and sedentary human subjects

1985 • 115 citations

The Effect of Exercise on Natural Killer Cell Activity in Young and Old Subjects

1989 • 109 citations

Specific non-opiate binding sites for human β-endorphin on the terminal complex of human complement

1982 • 87 citations

Endogenous opioids and the exercise-induced augmentation of natural killer cell activity.

1988 • 78 citations

Human neutrophil migration is enhanced by beta-endorphin

1984 • 68 citations

Regulation of human natural cytotoxicity by enkephalins and selective opiate agonists

1988 • 68 citations

Activation of human NKCC by moderate exercise: increased frequency of NK cells with enhanced capability of effector--target lytic interactions.

1981 • 67 citations

The Effect of Exercise on the Growth of a Mouse Tumor

1944 • 66 citations

Naloxone inhibits superoxide release from human neutrophils

1985 • 47 citations

Neuropeptides and stress

1989 • 44 citations

Proenkephalin a-like mRNA in human leukemia leukocytes and CNS-tissues

1986 • 40 citations

The Anorexia of the Elderly

1989 • 40 citations

Food peptides. A new class of hormones?

1982 • 39 citations

Differential effects of β-endorphin fragments on human natural killing

1987 • 39 citations

IgE-mediated 14C-serotonin release from rat mast cells modulated by morphine and endorphins

1982 • 36 citations

Enhancement of human lymphocyte natural killing function by non-opioid fragments of β-endorphin

1987 • 35 citations

Food Peptides

1982 • 25 citations

β-endorphin modulation of mitogen-stimulated calcium uptake by rat thymocytes

1987 • 22 citations

Endorphins: A Link Between Personality, Stress, Emotions, Immunity, and Disease ?

1986 • 21 citations

Opiate Antagonist Nalmefene Inhibits Ethanol‐induced Flushing in Asians: A Preliminary Study

1988 • 19 citations

A Case of Episodic Flushing and Organic Psychosis: Reversal by Opiate Antagonists

1983 • 16 citations

Aging decreases beta-endorphin enhancement of T-cell mitogenesis in mice

1988 • 15 citations

Modulation of the autologous mixed lymphocyte reaction by β-endorphin

1987 • 11 citations

Opioid Peptides, Stress, and Immune Function

1989 • 9 citations