Gender differences in trauma theory vs. practice: Comments on "Mechanism of estrogen-mediated intestinal protection following trauma-hemorrhage: p38 MAPK-dependent upregulation of HO-1" by Hsu JT et al

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Proctor, Kenneth G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; HEME OXYGENASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; SEX HORMONE; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; CXCL1 PROTEIN, RAT; CXCL2 CHEMOKINE; CXCL2 PROTEIN, RAT; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; EDITORIAL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PNEUMONIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATOLOGY; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHEMOKINE CXCL1; CHEMOKINE CXCL2; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HEME OXYGENASE-1; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTESTINES; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; UP-REGULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 47549117208     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90301.2008     Document Type: Editorial

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