A literature collection of animal and clinical studies highlighting sex differences and the role of hormones in lung development, and their implications in respiratory disease.
Main image credit: | Estrogen Receptor Alpha. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen_receptor_alpha |
Background image credit: | NIH Image Gallery, High Resolution Microscopy Image of Tublin, Flickr. CC BY NC |
ScienceOpen disciplines: | Medicine, Life sciences |
Keywords: | steroid hormones, lung disease, surfactant, lung development |
DOI: | 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-MED.CLZ059C.v1 |