Female sex steroids: Effects upon microglial cell activation

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 77-85

  Drew, Paul D ^a   Chavis, Janet A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Microglia; Nitric oxide; Progesterone; TNF

Indexed keywords

ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROGLIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMAL; CELLS, CULTURED; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERFERON TYPE II; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICROGLIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0034332969     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5728(00)00386-6     Document Type: Article

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