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Gender inequality and sex differences in physical fighting, physical activity, and injury among adolescents across 36 countries [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose: Sex differences in adolescent health are widely documented, but social explanations for these sex differences are scarce. This study examines whether societal gender inequality (i.e., men’s and women’s unequal share in political participation ...
Currie, Candace +4 more
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Biology of Sex Differences, 2023 Background Damage to the cerebral vasculature can lead to vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). A reduction in blood flow to the brain leads to neuropathology, including neuroinflammation and white matter lesions that are a ...
Charly Abi-Ghanem +14 more
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Sex differences in hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases [PDF]
, 2018 No abstract ...
Currie, Gemma, Delles, Christian
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Biology of Sex Differences, 2023 Background and aim Sex differences in atherosclerosis have been described with female plaques being mostly perceived as stable and fibrous. Sex-specific mechanisms such as mosaic loss of the Y chromosome in men have been linked to cardiovascular health ...
Michele F. Buono +11 more
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Sex-specific components of frailty in C57BL/6 mice. [PDF]
, 2019 Many age-related biochemical, physiological and behavioral changes are known to be sex-specific. However, how sex influences frailty status and mortality risk in frail rodents has yet to be established.
Baumann, Cory W. +2 more
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Sex differences in type 2 diabetes: an opportunity for personalized medicine
Biology of Sex Differences, 2023 Over the past several decades, substantial ground has been gained in understanding the biology of sex differences. With new mandates to include sex as a biological variable in NIH-funded research, greater knowledge is forthcoming on how sex chromosomes ...
Meredith L. Johnson +4 more
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Sex differences in emotional concordance. [PDF]
, 2020 Emotions involve response synchronization across experiential, physiological, and behavioral systems, referred to as concordance or coherence. Women are thought to be more emotionally aware and expressive than men and may therefore display stronger ...
Liedlgruber, Michael +3 more
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Sex Differences and Mechanisms of Task-Specific Muscle Fatigue [PDF]
, 2009 Women can be less fatigable than men due to sex-related differences within the neuromuscular system that impact physiological adjustments during a fatiguing task. The involved mechanism(s) for the sex difference, however, is task specific.
Hunter, Sandra K.
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Sex differences in mouse infralimbic cortex projections to the nucleus accumbens shell
Biology of Sex Differences, 2023 Background The nucleus accumbens (NAc) is an important region in motivation and reward. Glutamatergic inputs from the infralimbic cortex (ILC) to the shell region of the NAc (NAcSh) have been implicated in driving the motivation to seek reward through ...
Caroline S. Johnson +4 more
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Biology of Sex Differences, 2023 Background Gestational sleep apnea is a hypoxic sleep disorder that affects 8–26% of pregnancies and increases the risk for central nervous system dysfunction in offspring.
Steve Mabry +10 more
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