Endocrine control of mucosal immunity in the female reproductive tract: Impact of environmental disruptors

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 354, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 85-93

  Dunbar, B ^a,b   Patel, M ^c   Fahey, J ^c   Wira, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b Africa Biomedical Center   (Kenya)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Fertility; Hormone; Immunology; Reproduction; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTRADIOL; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; PHYTOESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID; VACCINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANATOMY; CELL FUNCTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HEALTH HAZARD; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; STROMA CELL;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84858278991     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2012.01.002     Document Type: Review

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