The authors studied the immunological influences of maternal or peer separation in adult monkeys. Monkeys with early separation experiences were found to have reduced proliferative responses to B and T cell mitogens but no differences in other immunological parameters compared with nonseparated control subjects.
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Laudenslager et al. (1985) studied this question.
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