Food intake regulation during pregnancy and lactation in mice with reduced activity of the melanocortin system by E. N. Makarova, I. V. Romanova, N. M. Bazhan

“…In this study we measured hypothalamic AgRP and NPY mRNA levels in virgin and mated C57Bl a/a (control) and Ау/a females on days 7, 13, 18 of pregnancy, 10, 21 of lactation, and after offspring separation, AgRP immunoreactivity in virgin and lactating females, and correlated gene expression with food intake (FI). …”
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Behavioral and neuronal responses of two mouse species, Mus musculus and Mus spicilegus, to con- and heterospecific olfactory signals by E. V. Kotenkova, A. V. Romashchenko, A. N.  Maltsev

“…The behavioral and neuronal responses of the males of two closely related species of mice (Mus musculus  wagneri, M. spicilegus) to the urine odors of estrus con- and heterospecific females were studied. In two-choice odor tests males significantly longer investigated odor of conspecific females in comparison with heterospecific ones. …”
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Radiation-induced impacts on mitochondrial DNA and the transgenerational genomic instability by Ryosuke Seino, Haruka Kubo, Kai Nishikubo, Hisanori Fukunaga

“…Also, we exposed 8-week-old female C57BL/6N mice to a single whole-body dose of 2 Gy of X-rays and mated them with healthy males 1 day after irradiation. …”
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A truncated pre-F protein mRNA vaccine elicits an enhanced immune response and protection against respiratory syncytial virus by Min Lin, Yifan Yin, Xiaomeng Zhao, Chen Wang, Xueqing Zhu, Letao Zhan, Li Chen, Siling Wang, Xue Lin, Jun Zhang, Ningshao Xia, Zizheng Zheng

“…Our experiments in young and old female mice revealed that the LC2DM-LNP vaccine elicited robust neutralizing antibody titers. …”
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Phenotypic variability and the gender paradox in the R363C variant of Fabry disease by Alison C. Leslie, Jeanine Jarnes, Alia Ahmed, Sofia Shrestha, Jeffrey Wang, Chester B. Whitley, Nishitha R. Pillai

“…Although Fabry disease is X‐linked, GLA gene variants in females can exhibit a wide range of symptoms, challenging the traditional view of Fabry as an X‐linked recessive disease. …”
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“Never break them in two. Never put one over the other. Eve is Mary’s mother. Mary is the daughter of Eve”: Toni Morrison’s Womanist Gospel of Self by Claude LE FUSTEC

“…Carefully following the chronology of Toni Morrison’s novels until Paradise (1997), this article focuses on Morrison’s rewriting of the Fall as the American “grand narrative” and basis of a powerful sexist and racist ideology via a number of black female characters variously characterized as outcasts. …”
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Is the skull of the black-headed gull dimorphic? Analysis of shape variation by P. Indykiewicz, N. Manuta, J. Bonecka, O. Gündemir, T. Szara

“…Male skulls were longer than females. Neurocranium was wider in male gulls. The nasofrontal hinge was more caudal in females. …”
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X-linked ubiquitin-specific peptidase 11 (USP11) increases susceptibility to Cushing’s disease in women by Tao Zhang, Yanting Liu, Fang Liu, Kaiyu Guo, Runhua Tang, Jingwei Ye, Li Xue, Zhipeng Su, Zhe Bao Wu

“…In this study, we analyzed the expression of deubiquitinating enzymes in functioning ACTH PitNETs from both male and female subjects using RNA sequencing and identified USP11 as a potential susceptibility factor contributing to the higher prevalence of these PitNETs in females. …”
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Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Thyroid Nodules and Goiter in Middle-Aged Euthyroid Subjects by Dalia Dauksiene, Janina Petkeviciene, Jurate Klumbiene, Rasa Verkauskiene, Jelena Vainikonyte-Kristapone, Audrone Seibokaite, Jonas Ceponis, Vygantas Sidlauskas, Laura Daugintyte-Petrusiene, Antanas Norkus, Birute Zilaitiene

“…Female gender, TSH levels, and thyroid volume predicted the presence of thyroid nodules.…”
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Roles, challenges, and resiliency during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case of women political leaders in the Philippines by Mark Erana Patalinghug, Ann Mariel P. Majorenos, Rezin I. Tigley

“…This multiple-case study explores the experiences of female political leaders during the pandemic, focusing on their roles, challenges, and resilience. …”
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Analysis of sports management students’ opinions on project-based learning by Ahmet Şahin

“…When the opinions of the project-based learning study participants are analyzed according to gender, it can be claimed that for the 4 items that were available in the scale, male students had more positive opinions compared to female students. It can be also seen that more female students expressed positive opinions for item first.…”
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The effect of living conditions on the stature of men and women: the case of south-eastern France (18th, 19th and 20th centuries) by Luana Batista-Goulart, Isabelle Séguy, Stefan Tzortzis, Gérald Quatrehomme

“…We compared the femur lengths of females and males between the three collections using Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon statistical tests. …”
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Cell Therapy for Chemically Induced Ovarian Failure in Mice by Paula Terraciano, Tuane Garcez, Laura Ayres, Isabel Durli, Melchiani Baggio, Cristiana Palma Kuhl, Claudia Laurino, Eduardo Passos, Ana Helena Paz, Elizabeth Cirne-Lima

“…Methods. Female mice were administered 7.5 mg/kg cisplatin followed by cell transplantation (one week later) using GFP+ female cell donors. …”
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Influence of the Sex of Translocation Carrier on Clinical Outcomes of Couples Undergoing Preimplantation Genetic Testing by Zhiping Zhang, Jiayao Chen, Lei Zhang, Ruiyang Wei, Zhen Liu, Dunmei Zhao, Xingyu Bi, Lixia Liang, Xueluo Zhang, Dan Su, Xueqing Wu

“…In the Robertsonian translocation group, male carriers had a higher embryo euploidy rate than that of female carriers. Sperm density of male carriers with reciprocal and Robertsonian translocation was significantly lower than that of the female carrier in the same group, whereas the difference was non‐significant in the inversion group. …”
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A Higher Tidal Volume May Be Used for Athletes according to Measured FVC by Pavlos Myrianthefs, George Baltopoulos

“…Professional athletes had significantly higher FVC compared to what was predicted (by 9% in females and 10% in males) and to nonathletes. They may also require a Tv of 6.6 mL/kg for males and 6.5 mL/kg for females during mechanical ventilation. …”
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The relationship between body composition and diatary habits in the university faculty members by Fatma Arslan, Ozden Tasgın, Sefika Dilek Guven, Aysegul Ozcan, Ozen Ozbay Ozbas

“…Both female and male administrative personnels had more junk food consumption than the others. …”
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Gender Variations in the Oral Microbiomes of Elderly Patients with Initial Periodontitis by Jie Zhao, Ying-Hui Zhou, Ya-Qiong Zhao, Yao Feng, Fei Yan, Zheng-Rong Gao, Qin Ye, Yun Chen, Qiong Liu, Li Tan, Shao-Hui Zhang, Jing Hu, Marie Aimee Dusenge, Yun-Zhi Feng, Yue Guo

“…The linear discriminant analysis effect size showed that the most representative biomarkers were the genus Haemophilus in males, whereas the dominant bacteria in females were Campylobacter. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes analysis showed that predicting changes in the female oral microbiota may be related to the immune system and immune system diseases are the main factor in males. …”
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The Effects of Fetal Gender on Serum Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and Testosterone in Normotensive and Preeclamptic Pregnancies by Nahid Lorzadeh, Sirous Kazemirad

“…Seventy-one pregnancies were uncomplicated; among those were 35 male and 36 female fetuses. Sixty-eight pregnancies were complicated by preeclampsia; among those were 35 male and 33 female fetuses. …”
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Cloning of HSP90, expression and localization of HSP70/90 in different tissues including lactating/non-lactating yak (Bos grunniens) breast tissue. by Penggang Liu, Sijiu Yu, Yan Cui, Junfeng He, Chuan Yu, Zexing Wen, Yangyang Pan, Kun Yang, Liangli Song, Xue Yang

“…The aim of this study is to investigate the expression and localization of HSP70/90 in different tissues and explore the regulation effects of HSP70/90 at lactation period of female yaks. HSP90 mRNA was cloned from the heart samples of female yaks, Quantitative real-time (qRT-PCR), Western blotting (WB), immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence assays were utilized to analyze the expressions of HSP70/90 mRNA and protein in different tissues. …”
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Examining the Relationship between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Weight Status: Empirical Evidence from a Population-Based Survey of Adults in Taiwan by Tai-Hsiung Hung, Pei-An Liao, Hung-Hao Chang, Jiun-Hao Wang, Min-Chen Wu

“…This study aims to examine the extent to which cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with body mass among adult males and females in Taiwan. Materials and Methods. A nationally representative dataset consisting of 68,175 adults aged 18–60, including 31,743 males and 36,432 females, was used. …”
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