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Sex differences in the brain: implications for explaining autism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
‘Empathizing’ is the capacity to predict and to respond to the behavior of agents (usually people) by inferring their mental states and responding to these with an appropriate emotion.
Baron-Cohen, S   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Sex-related differences in death control of somatic cells [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In 2001, The United States Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex and Gender Differences concluded that ‘Sex…should be considered when designing and analysing studies in all areas and at all levels of biomedical and ...
FILIPPINI, Antonio   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Sex differences in sucrose reinforcement in Long-Evans rats

open access: yesBiology of Sex Differences, 2022
Background There are sex differences in addiction behaviors. To develop a pre-clinical animal model to investigate this, the present study examined sex differences in sucrose taking and seeking using Long-Evans rats.
Jeffrey W. Grimm   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sex-Specific Differences in Shoaling Affect Parasite Transmission in Guppies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background: Individuals have to trade-off the costs and benefits of group membership during shoaling behaviour. Shoaling can increase the risk of parasite transmission, but this cost has rarely been quantified experimentally. Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
AE Houde   +46 more
core   +8 more sources

A questionnaire-based survey on hyperphagia in individuals with Prader–Willi syndrome in Japan

open access: yesEndocrine Journal
Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is associated with increased mortality, primarily due to complications from hyperphagia-associated obesity. Clinical trials investigating anti-hyperphagic medications are currently underway.
Makiko Tachibana   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lean mass mediates the relation between temporal summation of pain and sex in young healthy adults

open access: yesBiology of Sex Differences, 2018
Background Previous studies have shown that women experience greater temporal summation (TS) of pain than men using a repetitive thermal stimulus.
Abdulaziz Awali   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sexually dimorphic patterns in maternal circulating microRNAs in pregnancies complicated by fetal growth restriction

open access: yesBiology of Sex Differences, 2021
Highlights Detection and treatment of pregnancies at high risk of fetal growth restriction (FGR) and stillbirth remains a major obstetric challenge; circulating maternal serum microRNAs (miRNAs) offer potential as novel biomarkers.
Bernadette C. Baker   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sex differences in variability across timescales in BALB/c mice. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
BackgroundFemales are markedly underinvestigated in the biological and behavioral sciences due to the presumption that cyclic hormonal changes across the ovulatory cycle introduce excess variability to measures of interest in comparison to males. However,
Grant, Azure D   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Sexually dimorphic effect of aging on skeletal muscle protein synthesis

open access: yesBiology of Sex Differences, 2012
Background Although there appear to be no differences in muscle protein turnover in young and middle aged men and women, we have reported significant differences in the rate of muscle protein synthesis between older adult men and women.
Smith Gordon I   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sex differences in the expression of the endocannabinoid system within V1M cortex and PAG of Sprague Dawley rats

open access: yesBiology of Sex Differences, 2021
Background Several chronic pain disorders, such as migraine and fibromyalgia, have an increased prevalence in the female population. The underlying mechanisms of this sex-biased prevalence have yet to be thoroughly documented, but could be related to ...
Aidan Levine   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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