The effect of testosterone replacement treatment on immunological features of patients with Klinefelter's syndrome

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 448-452

  Kocar, I H ^a   Yesilova, Z ^a   Ozata M ^a   Turan, M ^a   Sengul A ^a   Ozdemir I ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Complement; Immunoglobulins; Interleukins; Klinefelter's syndrome; Lymphocyte subsets

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3C; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; FOLLITROPIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; NEPHELOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY FORMATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPLEMENT C3; COMPLEMENT C4; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0033851490     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01329.x     Document Type: Article

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