Estrogen Metabolites: Increasing Evidence for Their Role in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 419-421

  Cutolo, Maurizio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16 HYDROXYESTRONE; 2 HYDROXYESTRONE; ANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PRASTERONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; GENE CONTROL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; MITOGENICITY; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID LEVEL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUMOR GROWTH; UPREGULATION; URINE LEVEL;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYESTRONES; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE;

EID: 1542410406     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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