The state of leucocyte adhesiveness/aggregation in the peripheral blood: A new and independent marker of mental stress

Nadir Arber; Shlomo Berliner; Arnon Tamir; Eliezer Liberman; Gil Segal; Jack Pinkhas; Moshe Aronson

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The state of leucocyte adhesiveness/aggregation in the peripheral blood: A new and independent marker of mental stress

Nadir Arber^*, Shlomo Berliner, Arnon Tamir, Eliezer Liberman, Gil Segal, Jack Pinkhas, Moshe Aronson

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A direct slide test was used to detect the presence of aggregated white blood cells in the peripheral blood. By this means the state of leucocyte adhesiveness/aggregation (LAA) during acute mental stress was determined in 22 healthy volunteers and compared to the white blood cell count (WBCC). The LAA test proved to be more sensitive (73 per cent) as compared to the WBCC (40 per cent). This increased sensitivity is a result of a greater deviation of the LAA from normal values (obtained in 22 healthy controls) than the one obtained in the absolute cell number in the circulating pool. It is assumed that factors released during stress induce a state of increased LAA. Hence the determination of the adhesive state together with the absolute WBCC may yield a rapid, cheap and efficient laboratory criterion for the detection of mental stress.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	75-78
Number of pages	4
Journal	Stress Medicine
Volume	7
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2460070204
State	Published - Apr 1991

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Leucocyte adhesiveness/aggregation
mental stress

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