Effect of gender and sex hormones on immune responses following shock

Shock

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 81-90

  Angele, Martin K ^a,b   Schwacha, Martin G ^a   Ayala, Alfred ^a   Chaudry, Irshad H ^a,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Hemorrhagic shock; Immune depression; Kupffer cells; Macrophages; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIANDROGEN; CYTOKINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ESTRADIOL; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NOS2A PROTEIN, HUMAN; PRASTERONE; PROLACTIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLEEDING; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENIC STRAIN; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INJURY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEW ZEALAND BLACK MOUSE; ORCHIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; REVIEW; SECRETION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHOCK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, CONGENIC; ANTIBODY FORMATION; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; CYTOKINES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DRUG DESIGN; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MICE; MICE, INBRED NZB; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; ORCHIECTOMY; PROLACTIN; PROSTAGLANDINS; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHOCK; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TESTOSTERONE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0034243510     PISSN: 10732322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00024382-200014020-00001     Document Type: Review

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