Immunoactivation enhances the concentration of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone peptide and its gene expression in human peripheral t-lymphocytes

Endocrinology

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 215-233

  Azad, N ^a,b   La Paglia, N ^a   Abel, K ^c   Jurgens, J ^b   Kirsteins, L ^a   Emanuele, N V ^a,b   Kelley, M R ^b   Lawrence, A M ^a,b   Mohagheghpour, N ^c  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Kuzell Institute for Arthritis and Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; INTERLEUKIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS, CD3; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADORELIN; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0027293604     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.133.1.8319570     Document Type: Article

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