Androgens and estrogens modulate the immune and inflammatory responses in rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 966, Issue , 2002, Pages 131-142

  Cutolo, Maurizio ^a   Seriolo, Bruno ^a   Villaggio, Barbara ^a   Pizzorni, Carmen ^a   Craviotto, Chiara ^a   Sulli, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Androgens; Estrogens; Immune response; Inflammation; Lymphocytes; Macrophages; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

BLOOD; BODY FLUID; CONFERENCE PAPER; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SALIVARY GLAND; SMEAR; STRESS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0036307319     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04210.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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