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Proteomic analysis reveals regional sex differences in healthy and fibrotic human lung
2026-05-18
Abstract excerpt
Biological sex has systemic effects on gene expression, cell behavior, and disease etiology. Despite these widespread effects, sex as a biological variable is understudied, particularly in chronic lung diseases. In idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), 70% of patients are male, and male patients have overall worse survival post-diagnosis. While behavioral differences between sexes might account for some of the epid...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 984dd37a-3787-5ecb-a844-71df58cccefd
- DOI
- 10.64898/2026.05.15.725416
