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Emotional crying, depressed mood, and secretory immunoglobulin A
R B Martin1, C A Guthrie, C G Pitts
1Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.
Behavioral Medicine (Washington, D.C.)
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
The relationship between emotional crying and secretory immunoglobulin A (S-IgA) in whole saliva was examined. Previous research had indicated that lower S-IgA was associated with crying. Similar results were found in the present study. Depressed mood was not associated with S-IgA.