The immune-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 92-112

  Bateman, Andrew ^a   Singh, Ava ^a   Kral, Thomas ^a   Solomon, Samuel ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; ENKEPHALIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; THYMOSIN FRACTION 5;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KILLER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW;

ANIMAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTERLEUKIN-1; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024319605     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: 0163769X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/edrv-10-1-92     Document Type: Article

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