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  2. Placental ischemia and hypertension, characteristic features of preeclampsia, are associated with impaired cerebral blood flow (CBF) autoregulation and cerebral edema. However, the factors that contribute to t...

    Authors: Junie P. Warrington, Fan Fan, Jeremy Duncan, Mark W. Cunningham, Babette B. LaMarca, Ralf Dechend, Gerd Wallukat, Richard J. Roman, Heather A. Drummond, Joey P. Granger and Michael J. Ryan

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:58

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  3. Bipolar disorder (BD) affects both sexes, but important sex differences exist with respect to its symptoms and comorbidities. For example, rapid cycling (RC) is more prevalent in females, and alcohol use disor...

    Authors: William A. Jons, Colin L. Colby, Susan L. McElroy, Mark A. Frye, Joanna M. Biernacka and Stacey J. Winham

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:57

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  4. The prevalence and progression of many illnesses, such as neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and cancer, vary between women and men, often in an age-dependent manner. A joint hallmark of t...

    Authors: Michael Moschinger, Karolina E. Hilse, Anne Rupprecht, Ute Zeitz, Reinhold G. Erben, Thomas Rülicke and Elena E. Pohl

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:56

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  5. Previous studies have shown associations between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity (HPA). We aimed to investigate the association between obsessive-compulsive...

    Authors: Cristian Sebastian Melia, Virginia Soria, Neus Salvat-Pujol, Ángel Cabezas, Roser Nadal, Mikel Urretavizcaya, Alfonso Gutiérrez-Zotes, José Antonio Monreal, José Manuel Crespo, Pino Alonso, Elisabet Vilella, Diego Palao, José Manuel Menchón and Javier Labad

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:55

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  6. Exposure to air pollution and high levels of noise have both been independently associated with the development of adverse pregnancy outcomes including low birth weight. However, exposure to such environmental...

    Authors: Colette N. Miller, Urmila P. Kodavanti, Erica J. Stewart, Mette C. Schladweiler, Judy H. Richards, Samantha J. Snow, Andres R. Henriquez, Wendy M. Oshiro, Aimen K. Farraj, Mehdi S. Hazari and Janice A. Dye

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:54

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  8. Obesity and elevated serum lipids are associated with a threefold increase in the risk of developing atherosclerosis, a condition that underlies stroke, myocardial infarction, and sudden cardiac death. Strateg...

    Authors: Taylor Phelps, Erin Snyder, Erin Rodriguez, Hailey Child and Pamela Harvey

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:52

    Content type: Review

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  9. Galectin-3 binding protein (Gal3BP), sCD163, galectin-3, and depression have been linked to cardiovascular disease and mortality. In patients with type 1 diabetes, female sex has also been linked to cardiovasc...

    Authors: Eva Olga Melin, Jonatan Dereke and Magnus Hillman

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:51

    Content type: Research

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  10. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder. Relevant sex differences in symptomatology are discussed. This study compared brain neurometabolism in the anterior cing...

    Authors: Dominique Endres, Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Simon J. Maier, Bernd Feige, Peter Goll, Simon A. Meyer, Swantje Matthies, Katharina Domschke, Thomas Lange, Esther Sobanski, Alexandra Philipsen, Kathrin Nickel and Evgeniy Perlov

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:50

    Content type: Research

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  11. Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific hypertensive disorder characterized by impaired angiogenesis. We postulate that senescence of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), multipotent cells with pro-angiogenic activities...

    Authors: Sonja Suvakov, Hajrunisa Cubro, Wendy M. White, Yvonne S. Butler Tobah, Tracey L. Weissgerber, Kyra L. Jordan, Xiang Y. Zhu, John R. Woollard, Fouad T. Chebib, Natasa M. Milic, Joseph P. Grande, Ming Xu, Tamara Tchkonia, James L. Kirkland, Lilach O. Lerman and Vesna D. Garovic

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:49

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  12. According to the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group recommendations, boys and girls have different growth trajectories after birth. Our aim was to develop gender-specific fetal growth curves in a low...

    Authors: Sander Galjaard, Lieveke Ameye, Christoph C. Lees, Anne Pexsters, Tom Bourne, Dirk Timmerman and Roland Devlieger

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:48

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  13. Sexual dimorphism in biological responses is a critical knowledge for therapeutic proposals. However, gender differences in intestinal stem cell physiology have been poorly studied. Given the important role of...

    Authors: Julie Noguerol, Pierre-Jean Roustan, Mikael N’Taye, Léo Delcombel, Corinne Rolland, Laura Guiraud, David Sagnat, Anissa Edir, Chrystelle Bonnart, Alexandre Denadai-Souza, Céline Deraison, Nathalie Vergnolle and Claire Racaud-Sultan

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:47

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  14. Expression patterns between males and females vary in every adult tissue, even in organs with no conspicuous dimorphisms such as the heart. While studies of male and female differences have traditionally focus...

    Authors: Daniel F. Deegan, Reza Karbalaei, Jozef Madzo, Rob J. Kulathinal and Nora Engel

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:46

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  15. Obesity increases the risk for hypertension in both sexes, but the prevalence of hypertension is lower in females than in males until menopause, despite a higher prevalence of obesity in females. We previously...

    Authors: Robin Shoemaker, Lisa R. Tannock, Wen Su, Ming Gong, Susan B. Gurley, Sean E. Thatcher, Frederique Yiannikouris, Charles M. Ensor and Lisa A. Cassis

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:45

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  16. Cryptococcus neoformans, the causative agent of cryptococcosis, causes ~ 181,000 deaths annually, with males having a higher incidence of disease than females (7M:3F). The reason for this sex bias remains unclear...

    Authors: Tiffany E. Guess, Joseph Rosen, Natalia Castro-Lopez, Floyd L. Wormley Jr and Erin E. McClelland

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:44

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  17. Skeletal muscle health is a strong predictor of overall health and longevity. Pathologies affecting skeletal muscle such as cancer cachexia, intensive care unit treatment, muscular dystrophies, and others are ...

    Authors: Megan E. Rosa-Caldwell and Nicholas P. Greene

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:43

    Content type: Review

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  18. Cardiovascular disease increases with age in both sexes. Treatment can require cardiac surgery, where the hearts are pre-treated with protective cardioplegic solution before ischemia and reperfusion (I/R). Whi...

    Authors: Anjali Ghimire, Elise S. Bisset and Susan E. Howlett

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:42

    Content type: Research

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  20. Males and females exhibit significant differences in metabolism and in brain ischemic stroke and different features of brain ischemic lesions are related to different health outcomes. It is critical to underst...

    Authors: Hailuan Zeng, Weibin Shi, Wenhai Jiang, Shengxiang Rao, Beijian Huang, Hongmei Yan and Xin Gao

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:40

    Content type: Research

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  21. The incidence and prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) is about twice as high in women compared to men, and those of the neck/shoulder region are particularly high among women. Fatigue and responses ...

    Authors: Annamaria Otto, Kim Emery and Julie N. Côté

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:39

    Content type: Research

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  22. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that additional file 1 was incorrect. The corrected additional file 1 is given below.

    Authors: Sujoy Ghosh, Jessica L. Taylor, Tamra M. Mendoza, Thanh Dang, David H. Burk, Yongmei Yu, Gail Kilroy and Z. Elizabeth Floyd

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:38

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:19

  23. Nicotine exposure enhances Pavlovian conditioned approach (PCA), or the learned approach to reward-predictive cues. While females show elevated approach to conditioned stimuli compared to males, potentially in...

    Authors: Sierra J. Stringfield, Aric C. Madayag, Charlotte A. Boettiger and Donita L. Robinson

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:37

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  24. Angiotensin-(1-7) is a beneficial hormone of the renin-angiotensin system known to play a positive role in regulation of blood pressure and glucose homeostasis. Previous studies have shown that in high-fat die...

    Authors: Melissa C. White, Amanda J. Miller, Justin Loloi, Sarah S. Bingaman, Biyi Shen, Ming Wang, Yuval Silberman, Sarah H. Lindsey and Amy C. Arnold

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:36

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  25. Stress is an important contributor to myocardial ischemia and the progression of coronary artery disease (CAD), and women are more susceptible than men to these effects. Little is known, however, about the neu...

    Authors: Nicole Kasher, Matthew T. Wittbrodt, Zuhayr S. Alam, Bruno B. Lima, Jonathon A. Nye, Carolina Campanella, Stacy Ladd, Muhammad Hammadah, Amit J. Shah, Paolo Raggi, Arshed A. Quyyumi, Viola Vaccarino and J. Douglas Bremner

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:35

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  26. Chronic inflammation and impaired sleep increase the risk for cardiovascular disease. Menopausal women may be particularly at risk as a result of impaired sleep. The objective of the current investigation was ...

    Authors: Bianca D’Antono and Véronique Bouchard

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:34

    Content type: Research

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  27. Although some recent studies have indicated an association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and musculoskeletal disease, little is known about the association of MetS with low back pain (LBP). The present stu...

    Authors: Takahiko Yoshimoto, Hirotaka Ochiai, Takako Shirasawa, Satsue Nagahama, Akihito Uehara, Shogo Sai and Akatsuki Kokaze

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:33

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  28. Studies assessing volumetric sex differences have provided contradictory results. Total intracranial volume (TIV) is a major confounding factor when estimating local volumes of interest (VOIs). We investigated...

    Authors: Carla Sanchis-Segura, Maria Victoria Ibañez-Gual, Jesús Adrián-Ventura, Naiara Aguirre, Álvaro Javier Gómez-Cruz, César Avila and Cristina Forn

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:32

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  30. It is well documented that the metabolic syndrome predisposes patients to increased cardiovascular risk. Emerging data indicates that cardiovascular risk conferred by metabolic syndrome is highly dependent on ...

    Authors: Jessica L. Faulkner and Eric J. Belin de Chantemèle

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:30

    Content type: Review

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  31. Key differences exist between men and women in the determinants and manifestations of cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases. Recently, gut microbiome-host relations have been implicated in cardiovascular...

    Authors: Alexander C. Razavi, Kaitlin S. Potts, Tanika N. Kelly and Lydia A. Bazzano

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:29

    Content type: Review

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  34. There are sex differences in risk for stroke and small vessel ischemic disease in the brain. Microvesicles (MV) derived from activated cells vary by cell of origin and the stimulus initiating their release. MV...

    Authors: Larry W. Hunter, Muthuvel Jayachandran and Virginia M. Miller

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:26

    Content type: Research

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  35. Adipocytes and macrophages, the two major constituents of adipose tissue, exhibit sex differences and work in synergy in adipose tissue physiology and pathophysiology, including obesity-linked insulin resistan...

    Authors: Yang Xin Zi Xu, Geetika Bassi and Suresh Mishra

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:25

    Content type: Review

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  36. African Americans (AA) develop hypertension (HTN) at an earlier age, have a greater frequency and severity of HTN, and greater prevalence of uncontrolled HTN as compared to the white population. Mineralocortic...

    Authors: John S. Clemmer, Jessica L. Faulkner, Alex J. Mullen, Kenneth R. Butler and Robert L. Hester

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:24

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  37. Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is among the most common and disabling persistent pain conditions, with increasing prevalence in the developed world, and affects women to a greater degree than men. In the USA, the gr...

    Authors: Meghna Nandi, Kristin L. Schreiber, Marc O. Martel, Marise Cornelius, Claudia M. Campbell, Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite, Michael T. Smith Jr., John Wright, Linda S. Aglio, Gary Strichartz and Robert R. Edwards

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:23

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  39. Exposure to an adverse environment in early life can have lifelong consequences for risk of cardiovascular disease. Maternal alcohol (ethanol) intake is common and associated with a variety of harmful effects ...

    Authors: Sarah L. Walton, Melissa Tjongue, Marianne Tare, Edmund Kwok, Megan Probyn, Helena C. Parkington, John F. Bertram, Karen M. Moritz and Kate M. Denton

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:21

    Content type: Research

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  40. Antarctica challenges human explorers by its extreme environment. The effects of these unique conditions on the human physiology need to be understood to best mitigate health problems in Antarctic expedition c...

    Authors: C. Strewe, D. Moser, J.-I. Buchheim, H.-C. Gunga, A. Stahn, B. E. Crucian, B. Fiedel, H. Bauer, P. Gössmann-Lang, D. Thieme, E. Kohlberg, A. Choukèr and M. Feuerecker

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:20

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  41. The obesity-related risk of developing metabolic syndrome is higher in males than in females of reproductive age, likely due to estrogen-mediated reduced adipose tissue inflammation and fibrosis with hypertrop...

    Authors: Sujoy Ghosh, Jessica L. Taylor, Tamra M. Mendoza, Thanh Dang, David H. Burk, Yongmei Yu, Gail Kilroy and Z. Elizabeth Floyd

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:19

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:38

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    Authors: Parisa Amiri, Golnaz Vahedi-Notash, Parisa Naseri, Davood Khalili, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari, Yadollah Mehrabi, Ali Reza Mahdavi Hazaveh, Fereidoun Azizi and Farzad Hadaegh

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:18

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:15

  44. Weight loss by surgery or lifestyle changes is strongly recommended for obese individuals to improve metabolic health, but the underlying impairments that persist from a history of obesity remain unclear. Rece...

    Authors: Cameron Griffin, Chelsea R. Hutch, Simin Abrishami, Daria Stelmak, Leila Eter, Ziru Li, Eric Chang, Devyani Agarwal, Brian Zamarron, Mita Varghese, Perla Subbaiah, Ormond A. MacDougald, Darleen A. Sandoval and Kanakadurga Singer

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:16

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  45. The current nationwide study, for the first time, aimed to assess and compare the trend of pre-hypertension and hypertension among urban and rural adolescents in Iran.

    Authors: Parisa Amiri, Golnaz Vahedi-Notash, Parisa Naseri, Davood Khalili, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari, Yadollah Mehrabi, Ali Reza Mahdavi Hazaveh, Fereidoun Azizi and Farzad Hadaegh

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:15

    Content type: Research

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:18

  46. Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a common postoperative complication experienced by patients aged 65 years and older, and these older adults comprise more than one third of the surgical patients i...

    Authors: Katie J. Schenning, Charles F. Murchison, Nora C. Mattek, Jeffrey A. Kaye and Joseph F. Quinn

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:14

    Content type: Research

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  47. The male predominance in the incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) suggests the contribution of the X chromosome to the susceptibility of NPC. However, no X-linked susceptibility loci have been examined ...

    Authors: Xiao-Yu Zuo, Qi-Sheng Feng, Jian Sun, Pan-Pan Wei, Yoon-Ming Chin, Yun-Miao Guo, Yun-Fei Xia, Bo Li, Xiao-Jun Xia, Wei-Hua Jia, Jian-Jun Liu, Alan Soo-Beng Khoo, Taisei Mushiroda, Ching-Ching Ng, Wen-Hui Su, Yi-Xin Zeng…

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:13

    Content type: Research

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  49. The response to overfeeding is sex dependent, and metabolic syndrome is more likely associated to obesity in men or postmenopausal women than in young fertile women. We hypothesized that obesity-induced metabo...

    Authors: Marcela González-Granillo, Luisa A. Helguero, Eliana Alves, Amena Archer, Christina Savva, Matteo Pedrelli, Osman Ahmed, Xidan Li, Maria Rosário Domingues, Paolo Parini, Jan-Åke Gustafsson and Marion Korach-André

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:11

    Content type: Research

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  50. Following publication of the original article [1], we noticed a number of errors.

    Authors: Katsuya Uchida, Hiroko Otsuka, Masahiro Morishita, Shinji Tsukahara, Tatsuya Sato, Kenji Sakimura and Keiichi Itoi

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:10

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Biology of Sex Differences 2019 10:6

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