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Sex Differences in Liver Toxicity—Do Female and Male Human Primary Hepatocytes React Differently to Toxicants In Vitro?

There is increasing amount of evidence for sex variation in drug efficiency and toxicity profiles. Women are more susceptible than men to acute liver injury from xenobiotics. In general, this is attributed to sex differences at a physiological level as well as differences in pharmacokinetics and pha...

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Autores principales: Mennecozzi, Milena, Landesmann, Brigitte, Palosaari, Taina, Harris, Georgina, Whelan, Maurice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4388670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25849576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122786