Sex-based differences in lung cancer susceptibility and molecular genetics in the 2020s by Berta Mosleh, Pavla Sarova, Sonja Zehetmayer, Felicitas Oberndorfer, Joachim Widder, Helmut Prosch, Marco Idzko, Clemens Aigner, Mir Alireza Hoda, Daniela Gompelmann

“…Conclusion: Female Caucasian patients seem to have a higher susceptibility to lung cancer. …”
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First record of the big-scale sand smelt (Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810, Pisces: Atherinidae) from Porsuk Dam Lake, Türkiye by Benzer Semra

“…Of these specimens, 34.76% (146 individuals) were males and 65.24% (274 individuals) were females, resulting in a calculated sex ratio (females:males) of 1:0.53. …”
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A Meta-Diagnostic Model to Explain the Relationship Between Anxiety Intensity and Neuroticism in Anxiety Disorders: The Mediating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty by Fatemeh Hosseini, Ahmad Alipour, Majid Safarinia

“…The sample consisted of 678 individuals, which included 207 female patients (ages 20-55) diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorders, 242 female patients (ages 20-55) with social anxiety disorder, and 229 female patients (ages 20-55) diagnosed with panic disorder, all selected via purposive sampling method. …”
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Sex-Differences in Renal Expression of Selected Transporters and Transcription Factors in Lean and Obese Zucker Spontaneously Hypertensive Fatty Rats by Andrea Babelova, Birgitta C. Burckhardt, Waja Wegner, Gerhard Burckhardt, Maja Henjakovic

“…Higher incidence of glomerulosclerosis, tubulointerstitial fibrosis, and protein casts in Bowman’s space and tubular lumen was detected by PAS staining in obese male compared to female ZSF1 rats. Real-time PCR on RNA isolated from kidney cortex revealed that Sglt1-2, Oat1-3, and Oct1 were higher expressed in kidneys of lean females. …”
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Current and future perspectives on clinical management of classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency by Analia Yogi, Kenichi Kashimada

“…Insufficient glucocorticoid treatment will cause adrenal insufficiency, including life-threatening adrenal crisis, while excess of androgen could cause precocious pubertal growth in children, virilization in female patients, and infertility in male and female adult patients. …”
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Analysis of sports injuries in training and competition for handball players by Banu Kabak, Muharrem Karanfılcı

“…A total of 705 athletes (male, 492; female, 213), who are the ones at different ages participated in handball tournaments in 2011 in Turkey and young male and female national team players (22 male, 22 female) joined voluntarily to the study. …”
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Molecular Sex Identification in the Hardy Rubber Tree (Eucommia ulmoides Oliver) via ddRAD Markers by Wencai Wang, Guoqian Yang, Xin Deng, Fengqing Shao, Yongquan Li, Wei Guo, Hong Liang, Xianzhi Zhang

“…In consequence, five candidate male-specific loci but no female-specific loci were predicated among the 183,752 male and 147,122 female catalogue loci by bioinformatics analysis. …”
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Increased Body Mass Index during Therapy for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Significant and Underestimated Complication by Helen C. Atkinson, Julie A. Marsh, Shoshana R. Rath, Rishi S. Kotecha, Hazel Gough, Mandy Taylor, Thomas Walwyn, Nicholas G. Gottardo, Catherine H. Cole, Catherine S. Choong

“…During treatment, increases in BMI z-scores were greater for females than males; the prevalence of obesity increased from 10.3% to 44.8% (P<0.004) for females but remained relatively unchanged for males (9.8% to 13.7%, P=0.7). …”
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Sexual Dimorphism for the Association between Vitamin D and Insulin Resistance in Chinese People by Bing Han, Qin Li, Ningjian Wang, Yi Chen, Chunfang Zhu, Yingchao Chen, Fangzhen Xia, Zhen Cang, Meng Lu, Ying Meng, Chi Chen, Yingli Lu

“…Increasing 25(OH)D levels were associated with reduced trend of homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in both males and females. Pearson’s correlation indicated 25(OH)D level was inversely associated with the HOMA-IR for male subjects (r=−0.055, P=0.028) but not for female subjects (r=−0.005, P=0.798). …”
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Anxiety due to Dental Treatment and Procedures among University Students and Its Correlation with Their Gender and Field of Study by Mohd G. Sghaireen, Abdalwhab M. A. Zwiri, Ibrahim A. Alzoubi, Sadeq M. Qodceih, Mahmoud K. AL-Omiri

“…The Modified Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) was used to measure the levels of their dental anxiety. 700 questionnaires were returned, 390 females and 310 males (response rate of 0.92% among females, 0.73% among males). …”
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Sex differences in slow-wave electroencephalographic activity (SWA) in adolescent depression by Robert Hoffmann, Roseanne Armitage, Graham Emslie, Jorge Lopez

“…The study included 104 participants, 52 symptomatic and depressed subjects (MDD: 20 males and 32 females) and 52 healthy controls (HC: 20 males and 32 females), aged 13-18 years. …”
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Pregnancy Outcomes: A Retrospective Study by Donna Mendez, Krishna Paul, Jerome L. Yaklic, Dietrich Jehle

“…Background: This study compared outcomes of pregnant females with and without COVID-19 and their fetuses/newborns. …”
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Production of all-triploid derived from gynogenetic homologous diploid crucian carp (♀) × diploid red crucian carp (♂) by Chongqing Wang, Yan Tang, Xiang Luo, Yuxin Zhang, Yue Zhou, Qingwen Xiao, Zhengkun Liu, Xinyi Deng, Xu Huang, Xidan Xu, Xiaowei Xu, Kun Zhang, Qinbo Qin, Shaojun Liu

“…The 3nRR males exhibited improper sperm development, whereas 3nRR females produced mature eggs by two years old. Females of 3nRR produced various-sized eggs that fertilized with haploid sperm from RCC, producing viable diploids, triploids and tetraploids. …”
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Multi-dimensional oscillatory activity of mouse GnRH neurons in vivo by Su Young Han, Shel-Hwa Yeo, Jae-Chang Kim, Ziyue Zhou, Allan E Herbison

“…The GnRH neuron dendrons also exhibited a low level of unchanging clustered, rapidly fluctuating baseline activity in males and throughout the estrous cycle in females. In female mice, a gradual increase in basal activity that exhibited ~80 min oscillations began in the afternoon of proestrus and lasted for 12 hr. …”
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Has Internet Usage Really Narrowed the Gender Wage Gap?: Evidence from Chinese General Social Survey Data by Jiacheng Gao, Yue Liu

“…Therefore, this study proposes policy recommendations in terms of regulating gender discrimination and introducing relevant female protection policies.…”
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Gender Difference in Renal Blood Flow Response to Angiotensin II Administration after Ischemia/Reperfusion in Rats: The Role of AT2 Receptor by Maryam Maleki, Mehdi Nematbakhsh

“…PD123319 infusion promotes these hemodynamic responses in female more than in male rats.…”
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Sex Differences in Wellness Scores in Collegiate Athletes by Jennifer A Bunn, Michael R Jiroutek

“…For soccer, females have 2.45 times the odds (95% CI 1.32, 4.44) of males with a worse stress wellness score. …”
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Evidence for Significant Skew and Low Heritability of Competitive Male Mating Success in the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti by Claudia A. S. Wyer, Vladimir Trajanovikj, Brian Hollis, Alongkot Ponlawat, Lauren J. Cator

“…However, it is not known what proportion of swarming males successfully mate with females, how many females each male is able to mate with, and to what extent any variation in the male mating success phenotype can be explained by genetic variation. …”
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Congenital granular cell epulis: a case report with immunohistochemistry by Payman A. Rashid, Jalal A. Jalal, Muhammed Yakin

“…In most cases it arises from the anterior part of the maxillary alveolar ridge and is ten times more prevalent in females than males. We present a case report of a 2-month-old female infant, who presented with a mass on the gingival mucosa. …”
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The portrayal of sex rôles in South African television advertisements by Alta Oberholzer, Gustav Puth, Jan Myburgh

“…The results of the present study indicated a similar pattern of female advertising roles to those found in studies of other societies. …”
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