| 摘要 |
The present disclosure provides methods for preventing or treating illness, improving responsiveness to immunization, and improving the efficacy of gene therapy in a patient, by disrupting sex steroid mediated signaling and reactivating the patient's thymus. In some embodiments, the patient's thymus is reactivated by interruption or ablation of sex steroid mediated signaling by the administration of LHRH agonists, LHRH antagonists, anti-LHRH receptor antibodies, anti-LHRH vaccines, anti-androgens, anti-estrogens, selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs), selective progesterone response modulators (SPRMs), ERDs, aromatase inhibitors, or various combinations thereof. |
