Opposite effects of testosterone and estrogens on chronic allograft nephropathy

Transplant International

Volumn 15, Issue 9-10, 2002, Pages 494-501

  Antus, Balazs ^a,b   Yao, Yousheng ^a   Song, Erwei ^a   Liu, Shanying ^a   Lutz, Jens ^a   Heemann, Uwe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic allograft nephropathy; Donor gender; Estrogens; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR A; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0036933586     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2002.tb00205.x     Document Type: Article

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