Neuroendocrine immune pathways in chronic arthritis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 285-297

  Capellino, Silvia ^a   Straub, Rainer H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

androgens; cortisol; estrogen receptors; estrogens; fatigue; hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; stress; sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANDROGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHOTREXATE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PREDNISOLONE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ANTIBODY;

ANDROGEN METABOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC ARTHRITIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEPRESSION; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STRESS MANAGEMENT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNOVIUM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANDROGENS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CYTOKINES; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; STRESS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 42949170499     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.01.010     Document Type: Review

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