The effects of androstenediol and dehydroepiandrosterone on the course and cytokine profile of tuberculosis in BALB/c mice

Immunology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 234-241

  Hernandez Pando, R ^a   De La Luz Streber, M ^a   Orozco, H ^a   Arriaga, K ^a   Pavon, L ^a   Al Nakhli, S A ^b   Rook, G A W ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIOL; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; PRASTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HELPER CELL; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANDROSTENEDIOL; ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOKINES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-2; LUNG; MALE; MICE; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0031752347     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1998.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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