Sex Hormones and Immune Function

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 615-626

  Lahita, Robert G ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374271-1.00052-6     Document Type: Chapter

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