Identification of genetic determinants of the sexual dimorphism in CNS autoimmunity e0117993

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Bearoff, Frank ^a   Case, Laure K ^b   Krementsov, Dimitry N ^b   Wall, Emma H ^b   Saligrama, Naresha ^b   Blankenhorn, Elizabeth P ^a   Teuscher, Cory ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOINFORMATICS; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION STRAIN; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; INHERITANCE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MICE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84923253381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117993     Document Type: Article

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