Sex gender and autoimmunity

Journal of Autoimmunity

Volumn 38, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages

  Shoenfeld, Yehuda ^a   Tincani, Angela ^b   Gershwin, M Eric ^c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; DANAZOL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PRASTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; EDITORIAL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FATIGUE; GENDER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUPUS VULGARIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX; SKIN DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOSIS; THYROIDITIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84858752982     PISSN: 08968411     EISSN: 10959157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2011.12.007     Document Type: Editorial

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