A role for sex chromosome complement in the female bias in autoimmune disease

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 205, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1099-1108

  Smith Bouvier, Deborah L ^a   Divekar, Anagha A ^b   Sasidhar, Manda ^a   Du, Sienmi ^a   Tiwari Woodruff, Seema K ^a   King, Jennifer K ^b   Arnold, Arthur P ^b   Singh, Ram Raj ^a,b   Voskuhl, Rhonda R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRISTANE;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LUPUS VULGARIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWISS JAMES LAMBERT MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASTRATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEPHRITIS; OVARIECTOMY; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 43549091132     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20070850     Document Type: Article

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