Gender-specific effects on immune response and cardiac function after trauma hemorrhage and sepsis

Viszeralmedizin: Gastrointestinal Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 91-96

  Albertsmeier, Markus ^a   Pratschke, Sebastian ^a   Chaudry, Irshad ^b   Angele, Martin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Hemorrhagic shock; Immune depression; Immune modulation; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; PRASTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART FUNCTION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INJURY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; ESTRUS CYCLE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; INFLAMMATION;

EID: 84901415701     PISSN: 16626664     EISSN: 16626672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000360149     Document Type: Review

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