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Cardiovascular disease in transgendered people: A review of the literature and discussion of risk. [PDF]
This review examines the impact of gender affirming hormone therapy used in the transgendered and non-binary populations on cardiovascular outcomes and surrogate markers of cardiovascular health.
Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex and Gender Differences +6 more
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Sex steroid hormone modulation of neural stem cells: a critical review
While numerous in vivo experiments have sought to explore the effects of sex chromosome composition and sex steroid hormones on cellular proliferation and differentiation within the mammalian brain, far fewer studies as reviewed here, have explored these
Matthew S. Bramble +2 more
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Effects of Sex and Gender on Adaptation to Space: Musculoskeletal Health [PDF]
There is considerable variability among individuals in musculoskeletal response to long-duration spaceflight. The specific origin of the individual variability is unknown but is almost certainly influenced by the details of other mission conditions such ...
Bemben, Debra +5 more
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Sex differences in the neural mechanisms mediating addiction: a new synthesis and hypothesis
In this review we propose that there are sex differences in how men and women enter onto the path that can lead to addiction. Males are more likely than females to engage in risky behaviors that include experimenting with drugs of abuse, and in ...
Becker Jill B +2 more
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Summary: Females demonstrate elevated type-I interferon production and a stronger antiviral immune response; however, the mechanisms underlying sex-based differences in antiviral immunity are incompletely understood.
Priyanka Saminathan +10 more
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Risk of epilepsy in opposite-sex and same-sex twins: a twin cohort study
Background There is a complex interaction between female and male sex hormones and the risk of epilepsy. Whether prenatal exposure to higher levels of sex hormones affects the development of epilepsy in childhood or later in life is not well known.
Yanyan Mao +6 more
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Background The average age at first birth is steadily increasing in developed countries; however, demographic shifts in maternal age at childbearing have not occurred in isolation.
Amy Metcalfe +2 more
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Infection Models for Pine Wilt Disease on the Basis of Vector Behaviors
Infection models for pine wilt disease without vector density were built to estimate the transmission coefficient of the pathogenic nematode. The models successfully simulated the annual change in the density of infected trees for four pine stands. ABSTRACT Pine wilt disease is caused by the pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Steiner et ...
Katsumi Togashi
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Highlights Leuprolide acetate (50 µg/kg, postnatal day 25–50) suppresses pubertal development in female and male rats. Estrous cyclicity is suppressed during treatment in female rats.
Fay A. Guarraci +11 more
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Sex Differences with Aging in the Fatigability of Dynamic Contractions [PDF]
This study determined the sex difference with aging in fatigability of the elbow flexor muscles during a dynamic fatiguing task, and explored the associated mechanisms.
Doyel, Ryan E. +3 more
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