Importance Of Sex-specific Testing Shown In Anxiety Study

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  October 15, 2008

EXCERPT:  "Like their human counterparts, male and female mice are not only different, their respective genetic responses can often be the reverse of what you'd expect from pharmacological results. This has important ramifications for laboratory and clinical testing. ....  The outcomes tell us that you have to do both genetic studies and pharmacological studies to get the whole picture and see what your gene of interest is really doing."  more

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