Female sex hormones and cytokine secretion in women with multiple sclerosis

Neurological Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-99

  Trenova, Anastasiya G ^a   Slavov, Georgy S ^a   Manova, Maria G ^a   Kostadinova, Ivanka I ^b   Vasileva, Tonka V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ST GEORGE   (Bulgaria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Female sex hormones; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; BETA1A INTERFERON; CYTOKINE; ESTRADIOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON BETA SERINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROGESTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MICROPARTICLE ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RELAPSE; REMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CYTOKINES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PROGESTERONE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872550710     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132812Y.0000000120     Document Type: Article

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