Sex differences in immunity to viral infections

H Jacobsen, SL Klein - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has increased awareness about sex-specific differences
in immunity and outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Strong evidence of a male bias …

Drug-induced liver injury

RJ Andrade, N Chalasani, ES Björnsson… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is an adverse reaction to drugs or other xenobiotics that
occurs either as a predictable event when an individual is exposed to toxic doses of some …

Male sex identified by global COVID-19 meta-analysis as a risk factor for death and ITU admission

H Peckham, NM de Gruijter, C Raine… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, exhibits differences in morbidity and mortality between sexes …

Gender differences in COVID-19 attitudes and behavior: Panel evidence from eight countries

V Galasso, V Pons, P Profeta… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The initial public health response to the breakout of COVID-19 required fundamental
changes in individual behavior, such as isolation at home or wearing masks. The …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in immune responses

SL Klein, KL Flanagan - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Males and females differ in their immunological responses to foreign and self-antigens and
show distinctions in innate and adaptive immune responses. Certain immunological sex …

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: The diagnosis and management of patients with primary biliary cholangitis

GM Hirschfield, U Beuers, C Corpechot, P Invernizzi… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune cholestatic liver
disease, which when untreated will culminate in end-stage biliary cirrhosis. Diagnosis is …

The X chromosome and sex-specific effects in infectious disease susceptibility

H Schurz, M Salie, G Tromp, EG Hoal, CJ Kinnear… - Human genomics, 2019 - Springer
The X chromosome and X-linked variants have largely been ignored in genome-wide and
candidate association studies of infectious diseases due to the complexity of statistical …

Sexual dimorphism in colon cancer

M Abancens, V Bustos, H Harvey, J McBryan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A higher incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) is found in males compared to females.
Young women (18–44 years) with CRC have a better survival outcome compared to men of …

[HTML][HTML] The spectrum of sex differences in cancer

JB Rubin - Trends in cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Sex differences in cellular and systems biology have been evolutionarily selected to
optimize reproductive success in all species with little (sperm) and big (ova) gamete …

Toll-like receptor-guided therapeutic intervention of human cancers: molecular and immunological perspectives

S Mukherjee, R Patra, P Behzadi, A Masotti… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) serve as the body's first line of defense, recognizing both
pathogen-expressed molecules and host-derived molecules released from damaged or …