Gender influences SLE-immune cells, genetics, experimental models and lupus patients

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-299

  Zandman Goddard, G ^a   Peeva, E ^b   Shoenfeld, Yehuda ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gender; Genetics; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; 7 HYDROXYANDROSTENE; ALPHA INTERFERON; AMYLOID P COMPONENT; B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR; CHLORPHENOTANE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FODRIN; HERPESVIRUS ENTRY MEDIATOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 6; PRASTERONE; PROLACTIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; STEROID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 77956992521     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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