Poetry Writing and Secretory Immunoglobulin A

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jun 2003 English Publisher:SAGE PublicationsJournal:Psychological Reports, volume 92, pages 847-848 (issn: 0033-2941, eissn: 1558-691X,

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Authors: Geoff, Lowe; Joanne, Beckett; Gillian, Lowe;

doi: 10.2466/pr0.2003.92.3.847

pmid: 12841454

Poetry Writing and Secretory Immunoglobulin A

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Abstract

17 healthy students provided saliva samples for Immunoglobulin A (s-IgA) assay before and after sessions of either writing poetry or reading magazines (control). Levels of s-IgA increased after the poetry-writing sessions but not after reading.

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University of Hull
United Kingdom

Keywords

Adult, Male, Self Disclosure, Writing, Emotions, Poetry as Topic, Thinking, Reading, Immunoglobulin A, Secretory, Humans, Female, Saliva

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