The basis for gender effects in the connective tissue diseases

Annales de Medecine Interne

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 241-247

  Lahita, Robert G ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

connective tissue diseases; gonadotrophins; lupus erythematosus; rheumatoid arthritis; sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AUTOANTIBODY; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0029790887     PISSN: 0003410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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