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Academic stress and secretory immunoglobulin A
G Lowe1, J Urquhart, J Greenman
1Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK. G.Lowe@psy.hull.ac.uk
Psychological Reports
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
Immediately before and after giving an oral presentation and taking examinations 10 final-year students provided saliva samples for immunoglobulin A assay. Compared with 'baseline', levels of immunoglobulin A were lower surrounding the examination conditions and before the presentation.