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Sexual dimorphism in immune response genes as a function of puberty

Rebecca Lamason1 email, Po Zhao2 email, Rashmi Rawat1 email, Adrian Davis1 email, John C Hall1 email, Jae Jin Chae3 email, Rajeev Agarwal3 email, Phillip Cohen4 email, Antony Rosen1 email, Eric P Hoffman2 email and Kanneboyina Nagaraju2 email

Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Ave, NW, Washington DC, 20010, USA

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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BMC Immunology 2006, 7:2doi:10.1186/1471-2172-7-2

Published: 22 February 2006

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Genes up regulated during puberty in male and female mice.

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Genes down regulated during puberty in male and female mice.

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Genes differentially expressed in post-pubertal male and female mice.

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Effect of estrogen on FasL expression in activated CD8+ T cells. Purified CD8+ T cells were isolated and stimulated with plate-bound CD3/CD28 in the presence and absence of estrogen (10-8M) for 24 h. The cells were stained with PE-labeled anti-FasL antibodies. Filled area, isotype control; green line, CD3/CD28-stimulated cells; pink line, CD3/CD28 and estrogen.

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IFN-γ levels in activated CD8+ T cells. Purified CD8+ T cells were cultured in the presence and absence of plate-bound Fas-Fc/CD3/CD28 in the presence and absence of estrogen. IFN-γ was estimated using a commercial ELISA kit.

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