title: Testosterone: more than having the guts to win the Tour de France.
abstract: Sex bias in susceptibility to autoimmune diseases is evident but poorly characterized. Yurkovetskiy et al. (2013) report that host testosterone mediates changes in the microbiome to confer protection to adult male NOD mice from type 1 diabetes.
authors: Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors: Dingding
authors: D
authors: An
authors: Dennis L
authors: DL
authors: Kasper
mesh_terms: D000728:Androgens / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D015551:Autoimmunity; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000276:immunology*; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D000728:Androgens