Systemic inflammation and sexual dimorphism: More than meets the eye

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1610-1612

  Suffredini, Anthony F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Inflammation; Innate immunity; Lipopolysaccharide; Sepsis; Vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ESTROGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SEX HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOPLASTY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EDITORIAL; ENDURANCE; ESTRUS CYCLE; ETHNICITY; EXERCISE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTOXEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MALE; SEPSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34249332418     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000266793.09378.22     Document Type: Editorial

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