Gonadal steroids and immunity

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 369-384

  Olsen, Nancy J ^a   Kovacs, William J ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DANAZOL; ESTROGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; NANDROLONE; PRASTERONE; PREDNISONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG THERAPY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRILIZATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CYTOKINES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0029820958     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.17.4.369     Document Type: Review

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