Sex hormones and gender-related differences: Their influence on chronic renal allograft rejection

Kidney International

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2011-2020

  Müller, Veronika ^a,b   Szabó, Attila ^a,b   Viklicky, Ondrej ^a,b   Gaul, Isabell ^a,b   Pörtl, Stefan ^a,b   Philipp, Thomas ^a,b   Heemann, Uwe W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chronic rejection; Estradiol; Growth hormones; Hemodynamics; Testosterone; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FIBRONECTIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LAMININ; PROTEIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032894945     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.00441.x     Document Type: Article

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