Emerging concepts for sexual predilection in the disease systemic lupus erythematosus

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 876, Issue , 1999, Pages 64-70

  Lahita, Robert G ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; ESTROGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MICROSOME; NONHUMAN; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROID METABOLISM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032805017     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07623.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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