Cortisol, prolactin, cytokines and the susceptibility of pregnant Sudanese women to Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-117

  Bayoumi, N K ^a   Elhassan, E M ^b   Elbashir, M I ^a   Adam, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SUDAN; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROLACTIN; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61849135612     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485909X385045     Document Type: Article

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