Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Androgens show sex-dependent differences in myelination in immune and non-immune murine models of CNS demyelination

  • Amina Zahaf,
  • Abdelmoumen Kassoussi,
  • Tom Hutteau-Hamel,
  • Amine Mellouk,
  • Corentine Marie,
  • Lida Zoupi,
  • Foteini Tsouki,
  • Claudia Mattern,
  • Pierre Bobé,
  • Michael Schumacher,
  • Anna Williams,
  • Carlos Parras,
  • Elisabeth Traiffort

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36846-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Androgen effects have been poorly studied in demyelinating diseases in females. Here, authors show androgen requirement for proper myelin regeneration in females and the critical need to consider male-female differences in multiple sclerosis patients.