Sex steroid hormones modulate the activation of murine peritoneal macrophages: Receptor mediated modulation

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 199-204

  Savita, ^a   Rai, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Macrophages; Nitrate; Sex steroid hormones; Sex steroid receptor antagonists

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; MIFEPRISTONE; NITRITE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CASTRATION; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MIFEPRISTONE; NITRITES; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, STEROID; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0032007368     PISSN: 07428413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-8413(97)00207-7     Document Type: Article

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