Genetic background conditions the effect of sex steroids on the inflammatory response during endotoxic shock

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 232-236

  Trentzsch, Heiko ^a   Stewart, Dylan ^a   De Maio, Antonio ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Injury; Lipopolysaccharide; Sepsis; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; SEX HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTOXEMIA; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GONADECTOMY; HEREDITY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0037249721     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200301000-00036     Document Type: Article

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