Sex Hormones and Immunity to Infection - Klein, Sabra L.; Roberts, Craig; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Sex Differences in Susceptibility to Infection: An Evolutionary Perspective -- Effects of Sex Steroids on Innate and Adaptive Immunity -- Sex Steroid Receptors in Immune Cells -- Sex Differences in Susceptibility to Viral Infection -- Sex Differences in Innate Immune Responses to Bacterial Pathogens -- Sex Hormones and Regulation of Host Responses Against Parasites -- Sex Differences in Parasitic Infections: Beyond the Dogma of Female-Biased Resistance -- Progesterone, Pregnancy, and Innate Immunity -- Pregnancy and Susceptibility to Parasites -- Sex Steroids and Risk of Female Genital Tract Infection -- Sex, Pregnancy and Measles -- Epilogue: Challenges for the Future.
Keywords: Immunology; Evolutionary biology; Endocrinology .; Biochemistry; Animal genetics; Microbiology; Immunology; Evolutionary Biology; Endocrinology; Animal Biochemistry; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology