Estrogen And Natural Resistance To Respiratory Infection

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 13:40 in Health & Medicine

Females are naturally more resistant to respiratory infections than males and now researchers have linked that increased resistance to bacterial pneumonia in female mice to an enzyme called  enzyme nitric oxide synthase 3 (NOS3), which is activated by the female sex hormone estrogen. read more

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