In the battle of the sexes, women beat men in their ability to recover from kidney injury, but the reasons are not well understood. A study provides some insights: Females, it turns out, have an advantage at the molecular level that protects them from a form of cell death that occurs in injured kidneys. This protection could be exploited as a potential therapeutic.
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Source: ScienceDaily