Sex steroid hormones, hormonal contraception, and the immunobiology of human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection.

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Published in Endocr Rev on November 10, 2009

Authors

Zdenek Hel1, Elizabeth Stringer, Jiri Mestecky

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1: Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-2170, USA. zhel@uab.edu

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