title: Gender difference in calcification diseases: is it the result of gender-specific ways of nano-bacterial expansion?
abstract: Gender difference has been reported for frequency of the calcification diseases in urogenital system: according to published statistics data, they are more numerous in males. We suggest that the male increasing is due to nanobacterial infections and ways of their dissemination. There are specific gender-dependent ways for these infections which bring infection to the different target organs, namely: urinary tract, kidney, prostate in men and placenta in women. Identification of the suggested microbial pathogens and investigation of sex-determined pathways for the dissemination are the following steps to get ascertaining events of gender reasons for different calcification diseases.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russ. Acad. Sci., Pushchino, Russia. Electronic address: vain@ibpm.pushchino.ru.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Schwartsburd
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Agababov
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vainshtein
mesh_terms: D059587:Calcifying Nanoparticles / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D012737:Sex Factors; D014566:Urogenital System / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D052878:Urolithiasis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*
chemical_list: D059587:Calcifying Nanoparticles