Importance of sex-specific testing shown in anxiety study

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 10:07 in Health & Medicine

An Australian study has flagged an important truth for the medical research community. 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.

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