Sex hormones and the immune response in humans

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 411-423

  Bouman, Annechien ^a   Jan Heineman, Maas ^a   Faas, Marijke M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Immune response; Leukocytes; Reproductive condition sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CD16 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GRANULOCYTE FUNCTION; HEALTH STATUS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 21244442986     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmi008     Document Type: Review

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