Regulation of the Immune System by Sex Steroids

摘要: Introduction IN THE PAST 10 years there has been a significant increase in studies relating to the function of immune system. The recent popularity research this area is due part awareness by medical and scientific community importance maintenance disease-free homeostasis, technological advances field immunological research, increased availability funds for investigation area. From rapidly expanding literature it become increasingly apparent that system interacts with most, if not all, body systems. One most intriguing these interrelationships which occurs between reproductive systems involves interactions pituitary hormones, gonadal steroid hormones thymic hormones. Because complexity present review will concentrate on only one aspect interaction two systems, namely effects gon...