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18564762

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-6-20
pubmed:abstractText
A retrospective study of our 14-yr records on experimental Taenia crassiceps (ORF(fast) line) cysticercosis (n = 1,198) shows that in 16 of 17 different mice strains, female mice are more frequently infected and carry larger individual parasite loads than males. However, sexual differences in parasite loads significantly varies between strains in relation to their different genetic backgrounds (BALB > C57Bl = OTHERS > C3H). The coefficient of variation in all female mice is significantly smaller than that of all males, an indication of males' more potent, but erratically effective, restraint of cysticercus growth. Similar positive growth bias for female mice is shown by other lines of cysticerci, i.e., HYG(slow) and WFU(slow). These results contravene the usual expectation of female hosts being more resistant than males to parasite infections, and they point to the multiple factors that combined determine sex related differences of mice to experimental cysticercosis infection.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-3395
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
94
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
551-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-2-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Preferential growth of Taenia crassiceps cysticerci in female mice holds across several laboratory mice strains and parasite lines.
pubmed:affiliation
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 70228, México, D.F., C.P. 04510, México.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article