Immune homeostasis requires several biologic factors including glucocorticoid hormones

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 966, Issue , 2002, Pages 49-63

  Cancedda, Corrado ^a   Filaci, Gilberto ^a   Puppo, Francesco ^a   Ghio, Massimo ^a   Contini, Paola ^a   Indiveri, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Hormones; Immunological activity; Soluble Fas ligand; T cells

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; CD28 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FAS LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOCORTICOID; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 6; OKT 3; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; APOPTOSIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA BINDING; HLA SYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE BINDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; LIGAND BINDING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SUPPRESSOR CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0036300345     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04201.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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