TY - BOOK AU - Niveen Mahmoud Mostafa Sharawy AU - Laila Rashid , AU - Mohamed A. Hassan , AU - Moshira A. H. Rateb , TI - Study of the effect of female sex hormones on hypothalamo - pituitary - adrenal axis response to local and systemic inflammatory states / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Niveen Mahmoud Mostafa Sharawy , KW - CLP KW - HPA KW - Sex hormones N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Physiology; Issued also as CD N2 - Endotoxin is a potent activators of the hypothalamic- pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis . However sex hormones can modulate HPA response to local and systemic inflammation . We used female rats divided in to 3 main groups : group{u2160} sham group . Group{u2161} cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) and group {u2162} local inflamed ER -