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NEUROSCIENTIST
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 46-52Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1073858407308889
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female; male; caspase inhibitor; mitochondria; cytochrome c; cell death
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Many central nervous system (CNS) diseases display sexual dimorphism, specifically a predilection for one gender or a gender-dependent response to treatment. Exposure to circulating sex steroids is felt to be a chief contributor to this phenomenon. However, CNS diseases of childhood and of the elderly also demonstrate gender predominance and/or sexual dimorphism response to therapies. In this short update, we provide information concerning one of the most interesting new emerging concepts related to the influence of the sex in the pathogenesis of developmental brain injuries leading to different levels of neuroprotection between genders after cerebral hypoxia-ischemia or ischemia.
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