The Role of Sex Steroids in Immune System Regulation

作者: Charles J. Grossman

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2616-1_1

关键词: Sex hormone receptorThymic TissueBioinformaticsSpecialization (functional)Androgen receptorMechanism (biology)Immune systemBiology

摘要: In 1979 when we published the first reports describing presence of sex steroid receptors in thymic tissue,1–3 area immuno-endocrinology did not exist. Endocrinologists and immunologists were worlds apart, scientific societies inadvertently fostered this separatism because specialization insulation fields. Certainly clinicians had previously made observation that certain autoimmune diseases more prevalent one or other but underlying mechanism was unknown.

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