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Gender and risk of autoimmune diseases: possible role of estrogenic compounds.

A striking common feature of many autoimmune diseases in humans and experimental animals, despite differences in pathology, is that females are highly susceptible to autoimmune conditions compared to males. In several animal models, estrogens promote, whereas androgens abrogate, B-cell-mediated auto...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, S A, Hissong, B D, Verthelyi, D, Donner, K, Becker, K, Karpuzoglu-Sahin, E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 1999
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1566250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10502531