Rosenberger, P. H., et al. (2009). Surgical stress-induced immune cell redistribution profiles predict short-term and long-term postsurgical recovery: A prospective study.
Background: The experience of undergoing surgery is known to induce a short-term, fight-or-flight physiological stress response. As an optimum immune response at the site of surgery would enhance tissue repair, we examined surgical stress-induced immune cell redistribution profiles as predictors, and potential mediators, of short and long-term postoperative recovery. We tested the a priori hypothesis that predefined adaptive immune cell redistribution profiles observed during surgery ...
