Sex differences in drug metabolism have been reported in numerous species, including humans. In rats and mice, sex-dependent differences in circulating growth hormone profiles are responsible for the differential expression of multiple sex-dependent isoforms of cytochrome P450, which is the basis for the sexual dimorphism in drug metabolism. In contrast, very little is known about sex differenc...

Is there something as masculine and feminine values? Attempt of an everyday language approach
 The aim the paper is to answer a question that has often been raised but not thoroughly explored, namely, whether are values. In axiology values mostly considered in gender-blind way, while feminist critique, e.g., difference feminism, valorization differentiated axiological consideration underta...

The authors examined participants' estimates of own and parental psychometric intelligence (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EI). The authors asked 224 participants (82 men, 138 women, 4 people who did not report their gender) to estimate their own and their parents' IQ and EI scores on a normal distribution ranging from 55 to 145 points. The authors hypothesized that men would give higher IQ bu...

there are opponents and proponents in the new debate on feminine and masculine literature. opponents emphasize nonsexual nature of literature, and feminist and proponents of research from different perspectives have arrived at the conclusion that feminine and masculine literatures are different. in order to find the answer to the question “does gender affect literature”, we examined and analyze...

Employing a linguistic-visual paradigm, we investigated whether the grammaticization of gender information impacts readers' gender representations. French and German were taken as comparative languages, taking into account the male gender bias associated to both languages, as well as the comparative gender biases associated to their plural determiners (French: les [generic] vs. German: die [mor...

Female dogs mounted other females more frequently when the 2nd bitch was in estrus, but the hormonal state of the mounting individual had little influence upon mount frequency; estrogen rendered a female more pro­ vocative or stimulating and more cooperative or receptive to mounting by another dog. During heterosexual tests estrous females tended to mount males selectively, responding readily t...

A self-theory of transvestism and secondary transsexuality in which gender identity is a major self subsystem has been advanced in previous research. Within this framework transsexuals and transvestites were compared on a number of developmental characteristics. While early-onset transsexuals (n = 103) were dominantly female, both late-onset transsexuals (n = 52) and transvestites (n = 36) show...

In some Norwegian dialects, such as older Oslo dialect, the noun mamma ‘mother’ unexpectedly appears to be masculine. The Nordreisa dialect (Northern Norwegian) goes one step further. The word looks like it is masculine, but only in the definite form. This is an unusual “split” because gender mixture is normally based on number, not definiteness (but we find some few corroborative examples in o...