Enhancement of Collagen-Induced Arthritis in Female Mice by Estrogen Receptor Blockage

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2168-2175

  Jansson, Liselotte ^a   Holmdahl, Rikard ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; COLLAGEN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FULVESTRANT;

ANIMAL; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DBA MOUSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; MOUSE; OVARIECTOMY;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS; COLLAGEN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; OVARIECTOMY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 0035464310     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200109)44:9<2168::AID-ART370>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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