Women’s mood at high altitude. sexual dimorphism in hypoxic stress modulation by the tryptophan–melatonin axis

Sexual (and gender)-dimorphism in tolerance to hypobaric hypoxia increasingly matters for a differential surveillance of human activities at high altitude (HA). At low altitudes, the prevalence of anxiety and depression in women has already been found to double when compared with men; it could be ex...

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Main Authors: D. E. Alcantara-Zapata, N. Lucero, N. De Gregorio, P. Astudillo Cornejo, C. Ibarra Villanueva, M. J. Baltodano-Calle, G. F. Gonzales, C. Behn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.1099276/full