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4 Reporting Sex Differences in Research Publications
Pages 55-58

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... In this session, two panelists representing peer-reviewed, professional neuroscience journals provided perspectives on the status of reporting sex differences in neurological health and disease. Journal of neurochemistry Sean Murphy, professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington Medical School, is midway through an 8-year appointment as editor of the Journal of Neurochemistry (JNC)
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... This lack of information sharing may well contribute to why animal models are not optimized. In response to this, guidelines are currently being developed that will ask editors of journals to require authors to address a checklist of 20 items that are the minimum information that should be included in all scientific publications reporting research using animals (e.g., number and specific characteristics of animals used, including species, strain, sex, genetic background; details of housing and husbandry; and experimental, statistical, and analytical methods, including methods to reduce bias)
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... OPEN DISCuSSION Many participants agreed that having journal editors require specification of sex in publications would not create an undue burden on scientists. One participant cited a 1994 statement by the New York Academy of Sciences that recommended journal editors and reviewers require specification of the numbers and proportions of males and females studied, and that generalization from single-sex studies should be restricted to the sex investigated.
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