Sex steroids, immune system, and parasitic infections: Facts and hypotheses

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1262, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-26

  Nava Castro, Karen ^a   Hernández Bello, Romel ^a   Muñiz Hernández, Saé ^b   Camacho Arroyo, Ignacio ^a   Morales Montor, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Androgens; Cestodes; Estrogens; Immunity; Progesterone; Protozoan

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; SEX HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; HELMINTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LEISHMANIA; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIA SOLIUM; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CESTODA; PROTOZOA; VERMES;

EID: 84864147428     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06632.x     Document Type: Article

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