The role of endogenous steroid hormones in the generation of T helper 2- mediated autoimmunity in mercuric chloride-treated Brown-Norway rats

Immunology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 141-146

  Macphee, I A M ^a   Turner, D R ^a   Oliveira, D B G ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PRASTERONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENALECTOMY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CECAL DISEASES; CORTICOSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; TH2 CELLS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0033973596     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2000.00924.x     Document Type: Article

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