U.S. state data are starting to show a picture that matches one of the most mysterious global trends. Men are dying more than women.
to the viruses that cause hepatitis B and C. Men infected with coxsackie viruses — which in severe cases can cause inflammation of heart tissue — are twice as likely to die of the disease.That holds true even in other animals. Female birds show higher antibody responses to infection than males, especially during mating season. The immune cells that eat up microbes and cellular debris are less active in male lizards than in their female counterparts.
One such gene codes for a protein called “toll-like receptor 7,” which gets its name from a German word for “great.” These receptors recognize strands of viral RNA and will alert the body to the presence of an invader.“What we’ve seen in my lab is you get greater expression of this gene in immune cells in females,” Sabra Klein said, “which means you’re going to get all kinds of downstream effects.
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