| Title | Neuroendocrine and immune influences on the CNS: it's a matter of sex. | | Author(s) | Bale TL | | Institution | Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. tbale@vet.upenn.edu | | Source | Neuron 2009 Oct 15; 64(1):13-6. | | MeSH | Animals
Brain
Female
Humans
Immune System
Male
Mental Disorders
Neuroimmunomodulation
Neurosecretory Systems
Pregnancy
Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
Sex Characteristics
Spinal Cord
Stress, Psychological
| | Abstract | Most neuropsychiatric diseases have a sex bias in their presentation, age of onset, or treatment response. Yet surprisingly, we have considered very little the contribution of the sexually dimorphic brain when thinking about disease etiology and the important influences of the neuroendocrine and immune systems in programming the CNS. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
| | PubMed ID | 19840541 |
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