Why sex matters

Elife. 2021 Dec 2:10:e74935. doi: 10.7554/eLife.74935.

Authors

Josette J Wlaschin^{1

2}, Sangeetha Hareendran¹, Claire E Le Pichon¹

Affiliations

¹ Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
² Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States.

Abstract

The immune mechanisms underlying hypersensitivity to pain after nerve injury are different in male and female mice.

Keywords: CSF1; Treg; meninges; microglia; mouse; neuroscience; pain; spinal cord.

© 2021, Wlaschin et al.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Female
Male
Mice
Microglia*
Pain
Peripheral Nerve Injuries*
Spinal Cord