Sexual dimorphism in the spontaneous recovery from spinal cord injury: A gender gap in beneficial autoimmunity?

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1731-1740

  Hauben, Ehud ^a   Mizrahi, Tal ^a   Agranov, Evgenia ^a   Schwartz, Michal ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Androgen; Autoimmunity; CNS injury; Gender; Immunosuppression; Neuroprotection

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; FLUTAMIDE; HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASTRATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASTRATION; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0036435120     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02241.x     Document Type: Article

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