/newsroom/taxonomy/term/13099/all en /newsroom/channels/news/sex-bias-pain-research-322305 <p>It is increasingly clear that male and female humans and rodents process pain in different ways. And that there are important differences in the underlying mechanisms involved at genetic, molecular, cellular, and physiological levels. Despite this fact, according to a review paper from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University published today in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-020-0310-6"><i>Nature Reviews Neuroscience</i></a>, most pain research remains overwhelmingly based on the study of male rodents, continuing to test hypotheses derived from earlier experiments on males.</p> Thu, 21 May 2020 14:04:36 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 212044 at /newsroom