Effects of gender on the immune system: Implications for neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 823, Issue , 1997, Pages 247-251

  Lahita, Robert G ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN; SEX HORMONE;

BRAIN METABOLISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENDER; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 0030769242     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48396.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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