Recommendations concerning the new U.S. National Institutes of Health initiative to balance the sex of cells and animals in preclinical research

FASEB Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1646-1652

  Sandberg, Kathryn ^a,c   Umans, Jason G ^a,b,c,d   Berga, Sarah L ^e   Bonham, Ann C ^f   Clarke, Robert ^b   Darsow, Tamara ^g   Deschamps, Anne M ^h   Goodman, Jesse L ^b   Gore, Andrea C ⁱ   Howard, Barbara V ^d   Karty, Ann ^j   Mann, Janet ^k   McCarthy, Margaret M ^l   Mellman, Thomas A ^m   Miller, Virginia M ⁿ   Molina, Patricia E ^o   Morris, Patricia L ^p   Northcott, Carrie A ^q   O'Brien, Edward R M ^r   Samson, Willis K ^s   Sobrian, Sonya K ^m   Ullman, Michael T ^b   Verbalis, Joseph G ^b   Woolley, Catherine S ^t   more..

^a Center for the Study of Sex Differences in Health Aging and Disease   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Delaware   (United States)

^d MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

^g AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^h Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^j Hadassah Physicians Council   (United States)

^k GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^m HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^o LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q PFIZER INC   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^s SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Gender; Over reliance; Sex bias; Sex differences; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STANDARDS; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84932651525     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.14-269548     Document Type: Article

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