Occasional series. Why women?

Lupus

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 625-632

  Lockshin, M D ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

AUTOIMMUNITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX RATIO; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030627271     PISSN: 09612033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096120339700600802     Document Type: Review

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