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Autoimmune disease and gender: Plausible mechanisms for the female predominance of autoimmunity

A large number of autoimmune diseases (ADs) are more prevalent in women. The more frequent the AD and the later it appears, the more women are affected. Many ideas mainly based on hormonal and genetic factors that influence the autoimmune systems of females and males differently, have been proposed...

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Autores Principales: Quintero, Olga L., Amador-Patarroyo, Manuel J., Montoya-Ortiz, Gladys, Rojas-Villarraga, Adriana, Anaya, Juan-Manuel
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: 2012
Materias:
Androgen
Bromocriptine
Estrogen
Estrogen receptor
Prolactin
Antibody production
Article
Autoimmune disease
Autoimmunity
B lymphocyte activation
Cd4 lymphocyte count
Cd8+ t lymphocyte
Cellular immunity
Disease association
Disease predisposition
Genetic risk
Hormonal regulation
Human
Humoral immunity
Klinefelter syndrome
Lymphoma
Microchimerism
Monocyte
Monosomy x
Multiple sclerosis
Natural killer cell
Neutrophil
Onset age
Pregnancy
Pregnancy outcome
Prevalence
Priority journal
Raynaud phenomenon
Receptor binding
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sex difference
Sjoegren syndrome
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Systemic sclerosis
T lymphocyte activation
Th1 cell
Th2 cell
X chromosome
X chromosome inactivation
Y chromosome
Autoimmune diseases
Chimerism
Female
Hormones
Humans
Male
Sex factors
Gender differences
Sex hormones
human
x
Chromosomes
Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22252
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2011.10.003

Internet

https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22252
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2011.10.003

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