A new view on immune-adrenal interactions: Role for Fas and Fas ligand?

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 5-8

  Marx, Christian ^a   Wolkersdörfer, Gernot W ^a   Bornstein, Stefan R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Apoptosis; Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate; Fas; Fas ligand; Glucocorticoids; Immune system; Stress; Zonation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; HYDROCORTISONE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ADRENAL CORTEX CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; ENDOCRINE CELL; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031812408     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026320     Document Type: Article

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