Conceptual frameworks and mouse models for studying sex differences in physiology and disease: Why compensation changes the game

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 259, Issue , 2014, Pages 2-9

  Arnold, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Estradiol; Four Core Genotypes; Sex chromosomes; Sex differences in disease; Sexome; Sexual differentiation; Testosterone; X chromosome; X inactivation; XY*; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE MODEL; GENOTYPE; GONAD; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; THERIAN; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; COMPENSATION; DISEASES; FEMALE; FOUR CORE GENOTYPES; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SEX DIFFERENCES IN DISEASE; SEXOME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; XY*;

COMPENSATION; ESTRADIOL; FOUR CORE GENOTYPES; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DIFFERENCES IN DISEASE; SEXOME; SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE; X CHROMOSOME; X INACTIVATION; XY*; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84907294620     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2014.01.021     Document Type: Review

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