Estrogen increases sensitivity of hepatic Kupffer cells to endotoxin

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 4 37-4, 1998, Pages

  Ikejima, Kenichi ^a   Enomoto, Nobuyuki ^a   Iimuro, Yuji ^a   Ikejima, Ayako ^a   Fang, Dawn ^a   Xu, Juliana ^a   Forman, Donald T ^a   Brenner, David A ^a   Thurman, Ronald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CD14; Intracellular calcium; Lipopolysaccharide; Nitric oxide; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER METABOLISM; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECOND MESSENGER; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0031977431     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.1998.274.4.g669     Document Type: Article

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