Sex hormones and the genesis of autoimmunity

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 371-376

  Ackerman, Lindsay S ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; BROMOCRIPTINE; CYTOKINE; DANAZOL; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GONADOTROPIN ANTAGONIST; NANDROLONE; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MATURATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; CYTOKINES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33645102445     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.142.3.371     Document Type: Review

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