Testosterone Increases Susceptibility to Amebic Liver Abscess in Mice and Mediates Inhibition of IFNγ Secretion in Natural Killer T Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lotter, Hannelore ^a   Helk, Elena ^a   Bernin, Hannah ^a   Jacobs, Thomas ^a   Prehn, Cornelia ^b   Adamski, Jerzy ^b   González Roldán, Nestor ^c   Holst, Otto ^c   Tannich, Egbert ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MALE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE SURVIVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84873734650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055694     Document Type: Article

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