Involvement of gonadal steroids and gamma interferon in sex differences in response to blood-stage malaria infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3190-3203

  Cernetich, Amy ^a,b   Garver, Lindsey S ^a   Jedlicka, Anne E ^a   Klein, Pamela W ^a   Kumar, Nirbhay ^a   Scott, Alan L ^a   Klein, Sabra L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12 RECEPTOR BETA; INTERLEUKIN 15 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 15 RECEPTOR ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CASTRATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33646937665     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00008-06     Document Type: Article

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