Trade-Offs Between Hepatic Host Defense and Metabolic Programs Underlie Sex-Biased Diseases
J. Nikkanen, Y. A. Leong, W. C. Krause, D. Dermadi, J. A. Maschek, T. Van Ry, J. Cox, E. Weiss, O. Gokcumen, A. Chawla, H. Ingraham
This study identifies a sex-dependent trade-off between hepatic host defense and metabolic programs in mice, showing that BCL6 protects males from infection but increases metabolic disease risk under dietary excess.
bioRxiv · Jan 7, 2022Physiology