Endogenous glucocorticoids protect against cytokine-mediated lethality during viral infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3527-3533

  Ruzek, Melanie C ^a   Pearce, Bradley D ^b   Miller, Andrew H ^b   Biron, Christine A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOCORTICOID; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LETHALITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUROMEGALOVIRUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033559528     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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