Androgen and estrogen receptors are present in primary cultures of human synovial macrophages

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 820-827

  Cutolo, Maurizio ^d   Accardo, Silvano ^d   Villaggio, Barbara ^d   Barone, Antonella ^d   Sulli, Alberto ^d   Coviello, Domenico A ^d   Carabbio, Carla ^a   Felli, Lamberto ^a   Miceli, Dora ^b   Farruggio, Rosaria ^c   Carruba, Giuseppe ^b   Castagnetta, Luigi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Oncologico M Ascoli   (Italy)

^d Department of Internal Medicine ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 9044247856     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.2.820     Document Type: Article

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