Biology of Sex Differences

Papers
(The median citation count of Biology of Sex Differences is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Age and sex influence diurnal memory oscillations, circadian rhythmicity, and Per1 expression139
Sex differences in potassium regulation: evidence, molecular mechanisms and clinical implications137
Sexual dimorphism in colorectal cancer: molecular mechanisms and treatment strategies126
Sex-specific molecular signature of mouse podocytes in homeostasis and in response to pharmacological challenge with rapamycin99
Psychosocial and clinical characteristics in Takotsubo syndrome82
Correction to: Consideration of sex and gender differences in addiction medication response57
Sex-specific cardiac remodeling in aged rats after adolescent chronic stress: associations with endocrine and metabolic factors54
Fundamental sex differences in cocaine-induced plasticity of D1R- and D2R-MSNs in the mouse nucleus accumbens core52
Hippo-vgll3 signaling may contribute to sex differences in Atlantic salmon maturation age via contrasting adipose dynamics50
Sex differences in binge alcohol drinking and the behavioral consequences of protracted abstinence in C57BL/6J mice47
Sex-dependent expression of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in aortic stenosis44
Genetic hypogonadal mouse model reveals niche-specific influence of reproductive axis and sex on intestinal microbial communities44
Sex differences and sex-specific regulation of motivated behavior by Melanin-concentrating hormone: a short review41
Fetal sex differences in placental LCPUFA ether and plasmalogen phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine contents in pregnancies complicated by obesity40
Sex and gender correlates of sexually polymorphic cognition39
Sex-specific hypothalamic PVN transcriptomic signatures of blood pressure autonomic regulation and neuroinflammation in hypertension39
Estrogen administration enhances the adverse effects of cigarette smoking on the heart in cycling female mice39
The role of sex differences in cardiovascular, metabolic, and immune functions in health and disease: a review for “Sex Differences in Health Awareness Day”38
Sex differences in renal cell carcinoma: a single-cell analysis reveals exhausted CD8+ T-cells highly infiltrated in males36
Sry-modified laboratory rat lines to study sex-chromosome effects underlying sex differences in physiology and disease: Four Core Genotypes and more36
RAGE displays sex-specific differences in obesity-induced adipose tissue insulin resistance33
The diagnostic potential of oxidative stress biomarkers for preeclampsia: systematic review and meta-analysis31
Regulatory mechanism of LncRNAs in gonadal differentiation of hermaphroditic fish, Monopterus albus30
Dyskerin and telomerase RNA component are sex-differentially associated with outcomes and Sunitinib response in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma30
Sex-specific effects of gastrointestinal microbiome disruptions on Helicobacter pylori-induced gastric carcinogenesis in INS-GAS mice30
Sex differences in primary Sjögren’s disease: prognostic impact on mortality and cancer29
Univariate and multivariate sex differences and similarities in gray matter volume within essential language-processing areas28
Sex specific analysis of patients with and without reported statin intolerance referred to a specialized outpatient lipid clinic28
Integrative microRNA and transcriptome analysis reveals sex-specific molecular divergence in human bladder cancer27
A hypomorphic SRD5A2 haplotype with a potential founder effect: composed of common variants in individuals with 5α-reductase type 2 deficiency from South China27
Sex-specific gonadal transcriptome during early development of Siberian sturgeon27
The influence of sex on neuroimmune communication, pain, and physiology27
Analysis of sex difference in strychnine-intoxicated rat based on the combination of metabolic kinetics and metabolomics27
Investigation of autism-related transcription factors underlying sex differences in the effects of bisphenol A on transcriptome profiles and synaptogenesis in the offspring hippocampus26
Are we moving the dial? Canadian health research funding trends for women’s health, 2S/LGBTQ + health, sex, or gender considerations25
Sex differences in the association between cardiovascular risk factors and coronary artery calcification progression among individuals without coronary artery calcium24
Sex differences in the human brain: a roadmap for more careful analysis and interpretation of a biological reality24
Sex differences in the human brain related to visual motion perception23
Consideration of sex as a biological variable over the history of the 5xFAD Alzheimer’s Disease mouse model23
Sex differences in clinical cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies: a Chinese multicenter study23
Impact of gender and side of surgery on cognition, affectivity, and quality of life in patients undergoing temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: a prospective cohort study23
Sexual dimorphism in cancer: molecular mechanisms and precision oncology perspectives23
Overexpression of the human heat shock protein B1 alters obesity-related metabolic changes in a sex-dependent manner in a mouse model of metabolic syndrome23
Hormonal regulation of cochlear gene expression: effects of the estrous cycle, ovariectomy, and estradiol treatment22
The persisting presence of absence in female sex development: a critical interdisciplinary reflection22
Sex differences in the modulation of anxiety- and depression-like behaviors by matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression levels in mice22
Sex and gender differences in adverse events following influenza and COVID-19 vaccination22
Sex and interspecies differences in ESR2-expressing cell distributions in mouse and rat brains21
Perinatal citalopram exposure alters the gut composition and microbial metabolic profiles of Sprague-Dawley rat dams and female offspring but not male offspring21
Sex differences in the associations of body size and body shape with platelets in the UK Biobank cohort20
Novel insight into the lipid network of plasma extracellular vesicles reveal sex-based differences in the lipidomic profile of alcohol use disorder patients20
Sex differences for clinical presentations and co-pathologies in four-repeat tauopathies20
Sex differences in distribution and identity of aromatase gene expressing cells in the young adult rat brain20
Sex dimorphism and tissue specificity of gene expression changes in aging mice20
Sex differences in song syntax and syllable diversity in testosterone-induced songs of adult male and female canaries19
Sexually dimorphic DNA methylation and gene expression patterns in human first trimester placenta19
Parental kynurenine 3-monooxygenase genotype in mice directs sex-specific behavioral outcomes in offspring19
Maternal immune suppression during pregnancy does not prevent abnormal behavior in offspring18
Breast cancer: the first comparative evaluation of oncobiome composition between males and females18
Sex differences in a mouse model of diet-induced obesity: the role of the gut microbiome18
Explaining sex: contrast between social and sexual selection18
Lifetime history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy is associated with shorter sleep duration and more sleep disturbance in midlife: results from the Project Viva women’s health cohort18
The effect of nicotine-containing products and fetal sex on placenta-associated circulating midpregnancy biomarkers18
Age-associated sex difference in the expression of mitochondria-based redox sensitive proteins and effect of pioglitazone in nonhuman primate brain18
Sex-based differences in natural killer T cell-mediated protection against diet-induced steatohepatitis in Balb/c mice17
Visceral adiposity index and sex differences in relation to peripheral artery disease in normal-weight adults with hypertension17
The mixed legacy of the rat estrous cycle17
Sex-related differences in Huntington‘s disease: a scoping review17
Evidence for sex-specific intramuscular changes associated to physical weakness in adults older than 75 years17
Expression atlas of Dmrt genes across sex and development in the mouse brain: functional insights from the olfactory system17
Sex differences in the influence of type 2 diabetes (T2D)-related genes, parental history of T2D, and obesity on T2D development: a case–control study17
Sympathetic-mediated blunting of forearm vasodilation is similar between young men and women16
Sex-specific DNA methylation signatures of autism spectrum disorder from whole genome bisulfite sequencing of newborn blood16
Sex differences in the strategies of haptic object memory in early adulthood16
Sex differences in mitochondrial gene expression during viral myocarditis16
Sex differences in immune modulation: implications for infection, inflammation, and nutritional supplementation15
Sex-specific differences in zebrafish brains15
XX sex chromosome complement modulates immune responses to heat-killed Streptococcus pneumoniae immunization in a microbiome-dependent manner15
No impact of sex or testosterone treatment on wheel running in a rat model of inflammatory bowel disease15
The impact of chronic intermittent hypoxia on enzymatic activity in memory-associated brain regions of male and female rats14
The cognitive connectome of men and women: a study on sex differences across three cohorts14
Nk3R blockade has sex-divergent effects on memory in mice14
Mind the “CRP gender gap”! sex differences in CRP evolution over time in neonatal sepsis: a monocentric retrospective cohort study14
Sex differences in cognition, anxiety-phenotype and therapeutic effect of metformin in the aged apoE-TR mice14
Nrf2 activation rescues stress-induced depression-like behaviour and inflammatory responses in male but not female rats14
Sex and gender effects on incidence of migraine and stroke: a longitudinal observational study based on the german socio-economic panel14
Sex-specific influences of APOEε4 genotype on hippocampal neurogenesis and progenitor cells in middle-aged rats14
Exclusion of women from COVID-19 studies harms women's health and slows our response to pandemics14
Mitochondrial function and oxidative stress in white adipose tissue in a rat model of PCOS: effect of SGLT2 inhibition14
Sex-specific changes in energy demand during the preplaque stage in a transgenic Alzheimer’s mouse model14
Fetal sex impacts birth to placental weight ratio and umbilical cord oxygen values with implications for regulatory mechanisms14
Sex-specific benefits of a combined supplementation of B vitamins, nicotinamide riboside, folate and cobalamin, in a murine model of heart failure14
Membrane-associated estrogen receptor α prevents the amyloid β-induced suppression of GIRK channel activity in hippocampal neurons from female mice13
Sex differences in metabolic phenotype and hypothalamic inflammation in the 3xTg-AD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease13
Sex hormones and the risk of myocardial infarction in women and men: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank13
Walking to protect against cognitive decline: the role of APOE genotype and sex13
CGRP as a potential mediator for the sexually dimorphic responses to traumatic brain injury13
Myocytic androgen receptor overexpression does not affect sex differences in adaptation to chronic endurance exercise12
Sex differences in the blood metabolome of extremely preterm infants: a pilot study on the impact of antibiotic therapy12
Menstrual cycle modulates the effect of BDNF Val66Met variant on category learning12
Sex-dependent effect of sublethal copper concentrations on de novo cholesterol synthesis in astrocytes and their possible links to variations in cholesterol and amyloid precursor protein levels in neu12
Chronic periadolescent leuprolide exposure affects the development of reproductive physiology and behavior of female and male rats differently, but both mature after treatment termination12
Estradiol treatment induces both shared and unique gene regulation and networks in adipose cell types of gonadectomized obese XX and XY mice12
Sex-specific neural responses to smartphone cues in young adults12
Prolonged social isolation promotes depressive-like behavior in male and female mice, with sex-related differences in the stress response12
Decoding sex and gender effects on health: evidence from a nationwide cohort12
Remembering the null hypothesis when searching for brain sex differences12
The impact of childhood maltreatment, HIV status, and their interaction on mental health outcomes and markers of systemic inflammation in women12
Sexual differences in neuronal and synaptic properties across subregions of the mouse insular cortex12
Comparing the antidepressant-like effects of electroconvulsive seizures in adolescent and adult female rats: an intensity dose–response study12
Sex and gender differences in the molecular etiology of Parkinson’s disease: considerations for study design and data analysis12
Appetite ratings and ghrelin concentrations in young adults after administration of a balanced meal. Does sex matter?12
Sex-specific role of galectin-3 in aortic stenosis11
Association of physical activity with vascular aging in a population with intermediate cardiovascular risk, analysis by sex: MARK study11
Microbial composition, functionality, and stress resilience or susceptibility: unraveling sex-specific patterns11
Social stress, cortisol awakening response and sex: association with hippocampus and amygdala volume11
Menstrual hormone-induced cyclic thumb CMC instability and degeneration in women: a systematic review11
Correction: Variability of temperature measurements recorded by a wearable device by biological sex11
Dynamic transcriptome analysis highlights collagen-integrin-mediated extracellular matrix remodeling underlying sexual dimorphism in the amplexus muscle of Bufo gargarizans11
Association between serum testosterone and measures of cardiovascular health among transgender individuals using gender-affirming testosterone therapy: a cross-sectional study11
Sex-dependent effects of chronic intermittent hypoxia: implication for obstructive sleep apnea11
Sex and age differences in social and cognitive function in offspring exposed to late gestational hypoxia11
Sex and gender differences in drug treatment: experiences from the knowledge database Janusmed Sex and Gender11
Sex-related differences in phenotype and nigro-striatal degeneration of c-rel-/- mouse model of Parkinson’s disease10
Sex differences in electrophysiological properties and voltage-gated ion channel expression in the paraventricular thalamic nucleus following repeated stress10
βeta-2 glycoprotein I is a novel regulator of Apolipoprotein E containing HDL particles in females10
Sex differences in contextual fear conditioning and extinction after acute and chronic nicotine treatment10
Sex-specific obesity paradox and type 2 myocardial infarction in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients10
Sex-specific associations between carotid plaque and bone mineral density in patients with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cross-sectional study10
Sex-specific response to A1BG loss results in female dilated cardiomyopathy10
Sex-dependent circadian alterations of both central and peripheral clock genes expression and gut–microbiota composition during activity-based anorexia in mice10
Hepatocyte growth factor may contribute to male protection against pulmonary arterial hypertension10
Sex differences in type 2 diabetes: an opportunity for personalized medicine10
Prospective paired crossover evaluation of potential impact of investigator gender on perceived pain intensity early after acute or scheduled surgery10
Sex- and age-specific effects on the development of addiction and compulsive-like drinking in rats10
Different mechanisms underlie compulsive alcohol self-administration in male and female rats10
Influences of sex and gender on the associations between risk and protective factors, brain, and behavior10
Associations of habitual glucosamine supplementation with incident gout: a large population based cohort study10
Electrocardiographic sex index: a continuous representation of sex10
Correction: Nrf2 activation rescues stress-induced depression-like behaviour and inflammatory responses in male but not female rats10
Long-term sex differences in symptoms and immune profile in long COVID10
Treating sex and gender differences as a continuous variable can improve precision cancer treatments10
Chromosomal and gonadal sex have differing effects on social motivation in mice9
Relationship between sex biases in gene expression and sex biases in autism and Alzheimer’s disease9
TrkB-mediated sustained neuroprotection is sex-specific and $$\text{ER}\alpha$$-dependent in adult mice following neonatal hypoxia ischemia9
Sex differences in fetal intracranial volumes assessed by in utero MR imaging9
Maternal adverse childhood experiences impact fetal adrenal volume in a sex-specific manner9
Associations of social determinants of health on likelihood of systemic hormone therapy use in midlife women9
The effects of sex and gender attributes on clinical outcomes: a systematic review9
Loss of microRNA-30a and sex-specific effects on the neonatal hyperoxic lung injury9
Sex-dependent effects of ultra-low-dose-THC preventive treatment on neuroinflammation and cognitive decline in 5xFAD mice8
Loss of ovarian hormones is detrimental in early disease stages of mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and multi-etiology dementia8
Sex differences in the social motivation of rats: Insights from social operant conditioning, behavioural economics, and video tracking8
Paradoxical sex differences in a hamster model of angiotensin II-dependent hypertension and associated renal injury8
Integrated chromatin accessibility and DNA methylation analysis to reveal the critical epigenetic modification and regulatory mechanism in gonadal differentiation of the sequentially hermaphroditic fi8
Timing matters: a prospective investigation of father absence and pubertal timing in girls and boys8
Sex chromosome–dependent epigenetic regulation underlies sex-specific H4 acetylation at the aromatase promoter in the developing mouse amygdala8
TrkB-mediated neuroprotection in female hippocampal neurons is autonomous, estrogen receptor alpha-dependent, and eliminated by testosterone: a proposed model for sex differences in neonatal hippocamp8
The role of microRNAs in understanding sex-based differences in Alzheimer’s disease8
Steady-state estradiol triggers a unique innate immune response to allergen resulting in increased airway resistance8
Sex-specific metabolic and microbial remodeling in a rotenone-induced rat model of Parkinson’s disease following nicotine administration8
Advances in sex disparities for cancer immunotherapy: unveiling the dilemma of Yin and Yang8
Alcohol use during pregnancy: the impact of social determinants of health on alcohol consumption among pregnant women8
Sex-dimorphic reprogramming of fetal mouse brain development by maternal estradiol excess8
The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals8
Aromatase, testosterone, TMPRSS2: determinants of COVID-19 severity8
Sex modifies the association between urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio and diabetes among adults in the United States (NHANES 2011–2018)8
Preclinical and clinical sex differences in the effects of alcohol on measures of brain dopamine: a systematic review8
Sexual dimorphism of leptin and adiposity in children between 0 and 10 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis8
Advancing evidence-based regulation: Organization for the Study of Sex Differences and Society for Women’s Health Research support FDA action on menopausal hormone therapy and encourage broader sex-in8
Sex differences in the rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional value7
Mapping the hippocampal spatial proteomic signature in male and female mice of an early Alzheimer’s disease model7
Nationwide analysis on sex differences in diagnosis, treatment and survival of rectal cancer7
Sex differences in symptoms following the administration of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in children below 5 years of age in Germany (CoVacU5): a retrospective cohort study7
Sex differences in the effects of 10 Hz and 40 Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation on spatial cognition in mice7
Mechanisms of entanglement: how a gendered world makes a gendered brain7
Understanding sex and gender disparities in COVID-19 mortality: a narrative review beyond biology7
Sex influences on tumor innervation7
Sex differences in subjective cognitive impairment and clinical correlates in Chinese patients with subthreshold depression7
Sex-specific associations of SHBG, testosterone, and obesity with cholecystectomy risk: a population-based cohort study7
Sex differences in contextual pattern separation, neurogenesis, and functional connectivity within the limbic system7
Female-bias in systemic lupus erythematosus: How much is the X chromosome to blame?7
The impact of testosterone on paraventricular nucleus gene expression in male and female spontaneously hypertensive rats7
Consideration of sex as a biological variable in diabetes research across twenty years7
Women’s health research funding in Canada across 15 years suggests low funding levels with a narrow focus7
Intranasal Galanin(1–15) influences depression- and anxiety-related behaviors through sex-dependent mechanisms in rats7
Sex-influenced DNA methylation differs by placental cell type7
Attenuated sex-related DNA methylation differences in cancer highlight the magnitude bias mediating existing disparities7
Sex-specific difference on anxiety- and depressive-like behavior in neuronal growth regulator 1-knockout mice7
Embracing sex-specific differences in engineered kidney models for enhanced biological understanding of kidney function7
Sex-specific associations of Notch signaling with chronic HBV infection: a study from Taiwan Biobank7
Why the estrous cycle matters for neuroscience6
Consideration of sex and gender differences in addiction medication response6
KDM6A facilitates Xist upregulation at the onset of X inactivation6
Multi-omics analysis reveal clinical-gut-brain interactions in female ibs patients with adverse childhood experiences6
Sex/gender differences in the association between behavioural factors and cancers: an umbrella review of systematic reviews with quantitative synthesis6
Sex differences in bladder cancer: understanding biological and clinical implications6
Cell line-specific estrogen responses uncover functional sex differences in murine macrophages6
Own-gender bias in facial feature recognition yields sex differences in holistic face processing6
Glycogen depletion in astrocytes induces sex-dimorphic remodeling of astrocytic and synaptic structures with concomitant anxiety-like behaviors and maternal care deficits6
Real-world evidence indicates romosozumab use is associated with a greater reduction in osteoporotic fractures than PTH (1–34) analogs in women6
Sex- and age-dependent mitochondrial dysfunction and cognitive impairment in a mouse model of familial hypercholesterolemia6
A meta-analysis of sex differences in neonatal rodent ultrasonic vocalizations and the implication for the preclinical maternal immune activation model6
Sex differences in the neuroinflammatory signaling pathway: effect of miRNAs on fatty acid synthesis in microglia6
KDM5C and KDM5D influence DNA methylation in adult mouse liver6
Fetal endocrine axes mRNA expression levels are related to sex and intrauterine position6
Female mice exhibit less overall variance, with a higher proportion of structured variance, than males at multiple timescales of continuous body temperature and locomotive activity records6
Sex-based differences in growth-related IGF1 signaling in response to PAPP-A2 deficiency: comparative effects of rhGH, rhIGF1 and rhPAPP-A2 treatments5
Sex-biased gene and microRNA expression in the developing mouse brain is associated with neurodevelopmental functions and neurological phenotypes5
Sex differences in the impact of sedentary time on early-onset metabolic multimorbidity: evidence from a study of over 20,000 young adults5
Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research5
Sexual dimorphism in the serum metabolome following acute exhaustive exercise5
Sex differences in congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy (CHED) and Slc4a11−/− mouse model of CHED5
Whole-brain connections of glutamatergic neurons in the mouse lateral habenula in both sexes5
MetaFun: unveiling sex-based differences in multiple transcriptomic studies through comprehensive functional meta-analysis5
Motivation and reward processing across sex/gender and the menstrual cycle: a biopsychosocial perspective5
Training in the implementation of sex and gender research policies: an evaluation of publicly available online courses5
TLR8 escapes X chromosome inactivation in human monocytes and CD4+ T cells5
Sex and race define the effects of adverse childhood experiences on self-reported BMI and metabolic health biomarkers4
Genotype-by-environment interactive effects and conflict solving during gonadal sex differentiation of pejerrey Odontesthes bonariensis, a fish with dual genotypic/environmental sex determination4
Nucleus accumbens core chemogenetic excitation in male mice and chemogenetic inhibition in female mice reduced ethanol reward4
Hormones, heat, and health: a comprehensive review of sex-based differences in brown and beige fat biology4
Bile acid distributions, sex-specificity, and prognosis in colorectal cancer4
Sex-specific impacts of prenatal bisphenol A exposure on genes associated with cortical development, social behaviors, and autism in the offspring’s prefrontal cortex4
Comparative developmental genomics of sex-biased gene expression in early embryogenesis across mammals4
Research trends in estrogen and rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic bibliometric approach4
A cross-species analysis of neuroanatomical covariance sex differences in humans and mice4
Cortical thickness, surface area, and multisite pain: distinct patterns by sex in adolescence4
Gestational saccharin consumption disrupts gut-brain axis glucose homeostasis control in adolescent offspring rats in a sex-dependent manner4
Sex-specific associations between diabetes and dementia: the role of age at onset of disease, insulin use and complications4
Sex differences in the effects of individual anxiety state on regional responses to negative emotional scenes4
SexAnnoDB, a knowledgebase of sex-specific regulations from multi-omics data of human cancers4
Sulcal pits as potential markers of early sex-related human brain differences in healthy adults4
Sex hormones influence survival of patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma undergoing immune checkpoint therapy4
A call for inclusive research, policies, and leadership to close the global women’s health gap4
Interaction between gut microbiota and sex hormones and their relation to sexual dimorphism in metabolic diseases4
Dynamic transcriptome analysis reveals the gene network of gonadal development from the early history life stages in dwarf surfclam Mulinia lateralis4
Reprograming skin fibroblasts into Sertoli cells: a patient-specific tool to understand effects of genetic variants on gonadal development4
A sex difference in mouse dopaminergic projections from the midbrain to basolateral amygdala4
Sex-dependent locus coeruleus vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease: gut dysbiosis as a driver and probiotic intervention as rescue4
Global sex disparities in lifetime risk of alopecia areata: a systematic analysis from the global burden of disease study, 1990 to 20214
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