Sex differences in immune responses

Nature Reviews Immunology 16, 626 (2016). doi:10.1038/nri.2016.90 Authors: Sabra L. Klein & Katie L. Flanagan Males and females differ in their immunological responses to foreign and self-antigens and show distinctions in innate and adaptive immune responses. Certain immunological sex differences are present throughout life, whereas others are only apparent after puberty and before reproductive senescence, suggesting that both genes and
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