Let's talk about sex: Differences in drug therapy in males and females

CM Madla, FKH Gavins, HA Merchant, M Orlu… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady said,'Why can'ta woman be more like a
man?'Perhaps unintended, such narration extends to the reality of current drug …

Sex as a biological variable: a 5-year progress report and call to action

ME Arnegard, LA Whitten, C Hunter… - Journal of Women's …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
A little over 5 years ago, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the intention
to develop policies to require applicants to report plans to balance male and female cells …

Sex differences and sex bias in human circadian and sleep physiology research

M Spitschan, N Santhi, A Ahluwalia, D Fischer, L Hunt… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Growing evidence shows that sex differences impact many facets of human biology. Here
we review and discuss the impact of sex on human circadian and sleep physiology, and we …

A practical guide for transparent reporting of research on natural products in the British Journal of Pharmacology: Reproducibility of natural product research

AA Izzo, M Teixeira, SPH Alexander… - British Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Natural products continue to be an important source of medicines and drug templates.
Indeed, it has been estimated that approximately a third of all Food and Drug Administration …

Jumonji domain‐containing protein‐3 (JMJD3) promotes myeloid fibroblast activation and macrophage polarization in kidney fibrosis

C An, B Jiao, H Du, M Tran, B Song… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Purpose Renal fibrosis is a common feature of chronic kidney disease.
Myeloid fibroblasts and macrophages contribute significantly to the pathogenesis of renal …

Sex and adverse events of adjuvant chemotherapy in colon cancer: an analysis of 34 640 patients in the ACCENT database

AD Wagner, A Grothey, T Andre… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Adjuvant chemotherapy is a standard treatment option for patients with stage III
and high-risk stage II colon cancer. Sex is one of several factors responsible for the wide …

The underestimated sex: A review on female animal models of depression

S Lima, N Sousa, P Patricio, L Pinto - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2022 - Elsevier
Major depression (MD) is the most common psychiatric disorder, predicted to affect around
264 million people worldwide. Although the etiology of depression remains elusive, the …

The glucose tolerance test in mice: Sex, drugs and protocol

MR Kennard, M Nandi, S Chapple… - Diabetes, Obesity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To establish the impact of sex, dosing route, fasting duration and acute habituation
stress on glucose tolerance test (GTT) measurements used in the preclinical evaluation of …

Aromatase inhibition and ketamine in rats: sex-differences in antidepressant-like efficacy

S Ledesma-Corvi, J Jornet-Plaza… - Biology of sex …, 2023 - Springer
Background Ketamine has been recently approved to treat resistant depression; however
preclinical studies showed sex differences in its efficacy. Sex steroids, such as estrogens …

Unmasking the adverse impacts of sex bias on science and research animal welfare

EA Nunamaker, PV Turner - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Sex bias—the use of one sex over the other—is a common practice in
biomedical research, typically with over selection of male animals. There are a number of …