Differential male and female adrenal cortical steroid hormone and cortisol responses to interleukin-6 in humans

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 966, Issue , 2002, Pages 68-72

  Silva, Cândida ^a   Inês, Luis Sousa ^a   Nour, Dolores ^a   Straub, Rainer H ^b   Da Silva, José António P ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Gender; IL 6; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; SIGOSIX;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; FEMALE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036305737     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04203.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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