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The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues

open access: yesScience, 2020
Sex differences in the human transcriptome are widespread and tissue specific, and they contribute to complex traits. The role of sex in the human transcriptome In humans, the inheritance of the XX or XY set of sex chromosomes is responsible for most ...
Meritxell Oliva   +39 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Challenges in managing patients in Australia with chronic hepatitis B: the General Practitioners’ perspective

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2013
Objective: General Practitioners (GPs) are essential to reducing the impact of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) given their clinical management role where only 56% of people with the infection in Australia have been diagnosed.
Jack Wallace   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling Sex/Gender [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
People often assume that everyone can be divided by sex/gender (that is, by physical and social characteristics having to do with maleness and femaleness) into two tidy categories: male and female. Careful thought, however, leads us to reject that simple
Daly, Helen L.
core   +1 more source

Screened Out: Women with Disabilities and Preventive Health

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2007
This paper explores the lived experience of women with disabilities in relation to preventative health. It is based on qualitative research in Australia involving 25 individual interviews and 4 focus groups with women with disabilities about their ...
Kelley Johnson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sex: Sexual Orientation, Sex Stereotyping, and Title VII [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The United States Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Altitude Express v. Zarda, a case that addresses whether Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination “on the basis of sex” prohibits sexual orientation discrimination.
Kaminer, Debbie N.
core  

Development and validation of PozQoL: a scale to assess quality of life of PLHIV

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2018
Background Advances in medical treatment for HIV are driving major changes in HIV policy and practice, including the encouragement of intake and adherence to HIV antiretroviral treatment (ART) by people living with HIV (PLHIV) for both personal and ...
Graham Brown   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The BCL-2 pathway preserves mammalian genome integrity by eliminating recombination-defective oocytes

open access: yesNature Communications, 2020
If left unrepaired, meiotic DSBs are toxic to mammalian cells, thus oocytes in which DSBs persist are eliminated by the DNA-damage checkpoint. Here the authors provide insights into the roles of PUMA, NOXA and BAX during DNA damage checkpoint that ...
Elias ElInati   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ligand-independent androgen receptors promote ovarian teratocarcinoma cell growth by stimulating self-renewal of cancer stem/progenitor cells

open access: yesStem Cell Research, 2014
Background: Ovarian teratocarcinoma (OVTC) arises from germ cells and contains a high percentage of cancer stem/progenitor cells (CSPCs), which promote cancer development through their ability to self-renew.
Wei-Min Chung   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child sex tourism – prevalence of and risk factors for its use in a German community sample

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
Background To investigate the prevalence of child sex tourism (CST) in a large German community sample, and to compare those who made use of CST with other child sexual abusers regarding established characteristics and risk factors for child sexual abuse.
Thula Koops   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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