Testosterone Increases Susceptibility to Amebic Liver Abscess in Mice and Mediates Inhibition of IFNγ Secretion in Natural Killer T Cells

• Hannelore Lotter ,

  * E-mail: lotter@bni-hamburg.de

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Elena Helk,

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Hannah Bernin,

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Thomas Jacobs,

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Cornelia Prehn,

  Affiliation Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Jerzy Adamski,

  Affiliation Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Nestor González-Roldán,

  Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

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• Otto Holst,

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biochemistry, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

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• Egbert Tannich

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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