Androgen receptor influences on body defense system via modulation of innate and adaptive immune systems: Lessons from conditional AR knockout mice

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1504-1512

  Lai, Jiann Jyh ^a   Lai, Kuo Pao ^a   Zeng, Weiping ^a   Chuang, Kuang Hsiang ^a   Altuwaijri, Saleh ^a   Chang, Chawnshang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MACROPHAGE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; WOUND HEALING;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84868113319     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.07.008     Document Type: Review

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