The role of sex hormones in the development of Th2 immunity in a gender-biased model of Trichuris muris infection

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 406-416

  Hepworth, Matthew R ^a   Hardman, Matthew J ^a   Grencis, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative immunology; Cytokines; Parasitic helminth; Th1 Th2 cells

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 9; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS MURIS;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DENDRITIC CELLS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX FACTORS; TH2 CELLS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 75149196834     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: 15214141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200939589     Document Type: Article

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