The effect of female sexual hormones on the intestinal and serum cytokine response after traumatic brain injury: Different roles for estrogen receptor subtypes

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 700-707

  Khaksari, Mohammad ^a   Keshavarzi, Zakieh ^b   Gholamhoseinian, Ahmad ^c   Bibak, Bahram ^d  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d NORTH KHORASAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Estrogen receptors; Gut; Proinflammatory cytokines

Indexed keywords

1,3,5 TRIS(4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 4 PROPYLPYRAZOLE; CYTOKINE; DIARYLPROPIONITRILE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SHAM PROCEDURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTESTINES; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; PROPIONATES; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84883301080     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: 12057541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjpp-2012-0359     Document Type: Article

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