Female sex hormones as regulatory factors in the vaginal immune compartment

International Reviews of Immunology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 497-513

  Rakasz, Eva ^a   Lynch, Richard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular immune responses; Female reproductive tract; Female sex hormones; Humoral immune responses; Vaginal immunity

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; UTERUS; VACCINATION; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; UTERUS; VACCINATION; VAGINA;

EID: 0036857551     PISSN: 08830185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08830180215016     Document Type: Review

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