Testosterone: more than having the guts to win the Tour de France
Publication information:
Dingding An and Dennis Kasper. 2013. “Testosterone: More Than Having the Guts to Win the Tour de France”. Immunity, 39, 2, Pp. 208-10
Abstract
Sex bias in susceptibility to autoimmune diseases is evident but poorly characterized. Yurkovetskiy et al. (2013) report that host testosterone mediates changes in the microbiome to confer protection to adult male NOD mice from type 1 diabetes.