Sex Differences in Biology of Stress
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 2626
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sex differences; stress; CRF; GPCRs; HPA axis; cell signaling and receptor crosstalk; metabolic disease; mental health; systems biology; neuroendocrinology; neurodegenerative diseases; gut–brain axis
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Interests: PTSD; psychophysiology; fear conditioning; sleep; sex differences
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many diseases present as a spectrum of symptoms, and biological sex is an important variable that might predispose men and women to different risks of a given disease. Some symptoms may be more prominent in one sex, whereas some may be sex and/or gender specific, suggesting that underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms might be both shared and distinct. For example, COVID-19 has highlighted the issue of sex differences in disease outcome and symptom presentation.
For this Special Issue, we are seeking original research related to stress that analyzes data by considering sex as a biological variable. Stress is a polysemous word, and stress-related pathophysiology encompasses a myriad of diseases that range from mental disorders to reproductive dysfunction and from cardiovascular, renal to gastrointestinal diseases. For human research, how gender was assessed should be specified. Brief reports and original articles will be considered.
Prof. Dr. Aditi Bhargava
Prof. Dr. Sabra Inslicht
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biological sex
- SABV
- gender
- physiology
- COVID-19
- immune responses
- mental health
- gut–brain
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