Estrogen increases protective proteins following trauma and hemorrhage

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Meldrum, Daniel R ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Emerson Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PROTECTIVE AGENT;

BLEEDING; BURN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INJURY; ISCHEMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LIVER FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HEART; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; HEART; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMORRHAGE; LIVER; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33645399992     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00802.2005     Document Type: Editorial

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