In animal models, the physiological systems involved in metabolic homeostasis exhibit a sex
difference. Investigators often use male rodents because they show metabolic disease better …

Do you know the sex of your cells? Not a question that is frequently heard around the lab
bench, yet thanks to recent research is probably one that should be asked. It is self-evident …

Mammals usually produce approximately equal numbers of sons and daughters, but there
are exceptions to this general rule, as has been observed in ruminant ungulate species …

Contents Despite major efforts directed at improving the yield of blastocysts from immature
oocytes in vitro, the quality of such blastocysts continually lags behind that of blastocysts …

We have shown that muscle-derived stem cells (MDSCs) transplanted into dystrophic (mdx)
mice efficiently regenerate skeletal muscle. However, MDSC populations exhibit …

Epigenetic differences between male and female bovine blastocysts provide a plausible link
between physiological and gene transcription differences observed between male and …

IFN-τ is a secretory product of trophectoderm of cattle, sheep, and their relatives and is
expressed for a few days in early pregnancy after the blastocyst first forms. It serves to alert …

There is now a substantial body of data showing that in eutherian mammals (mouse, rat, cow
and man) XY conceptuses are developmentally more advanced (and consequently larger) …

The “developmental origins of health and disease”(DOHAD) hypothesis derives from clinical
observations, indicating long-term health consequences for persons of low birth weight …

Equal expression of X-linked genes such as G6PD and PGK in females and males and the
initiation of X-chromosome inactivation are critically dependent on the expression of the X …