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Sex of the cell dictates its response: differential gene expression and sensitivity to cell death inducing stress in male and female cells
3 Feb 2009
Abstract excerpt
Sexual dimorphisms are typically attributed to the hormonal differences arising once sex differentiation has occurred. However, in some sexually dimorphic diseases that differ in frequency but not severity, the differences cannot be logically connected to the sex hormones. Therefore, we asked whether any aspect of sexual dimorphism could be attributed to chromosomal rather than hormonal differences. Cells taken...
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