Inclusion of Sex as a Biological Variable in Biomedical Sciences at the Undergraduate Level and Beyond.
Inclusion of Sex as a Biological Variable in Biomedical Sciences at the Undergraduate Level and Beyond.
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将性别作为生物变量纳入本科及以上生物医学科学。
DOI：
10.1089/jwh.2022.0533
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发表时间：
2023
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Arnold,ArthurP
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作者：
Reue,Karen;Arnold,ArthurP
To improve research on women's health, and to achieve better understanding of the factors controlling disease across diverse populations of humans, it is imperative to study sex differences in physiology and disease. After the introduction of the “SABV policy” at NIH, which requires investigators using animals or humans to consider sex as a biological factor, it became clear that many investigators were unaware of concepts of sexual differentiation or methods that can be used to study sex as a biological variable (SABV). To remedy this situation, efforts have increased to teach concepts and methods of SABV at all educational levels. The UCLA Scientific Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) grant “Sex differences in the metabolic syndrome” promotes education about SABV through three primary mechanisms: (1) through didactic course content for students at the undergraduate level, (2) by providing pilot funding for early career investigators to study the role of sex in metabolism-related areas, and (3) through curation of a video library, which may be useful for investigators performing research at the graduate, postgraduate, and faculty levels.
