為什么男性感冒好的要比女性快?

“Man flu”, a term that refers to the concept of men exaggerating their symptoms when feeling under the weather, is supposedly a real phenomenon.

“男人流感”，是用來(lái)描述男在不舒服的情況下，通常會(huì)夸張他們的癥狀。據(jù)說(shuō)這是一個(gè)真實(shí)的現(xiàn)象。

While research has claimed that a number of men do in fact have weaker immune systems than was previously supposed, a new study has discovered that when afflicted with influenza, there may bescientific reason why men recover at a faster rate than women.

雖然有研究表明很多男性的免疫力確實(shí)比我們想象的要弱，但是一項(xiàng)新研究揭示，有科學(xué)證據(jù)男性的恢復(fù)速度比女性要快。

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health decided to investigate the various effects that influenza can have on men and women.

來(lái)自約翰霍普金斯大學(xué)的彭博公共衛(wèi)生學(xué)院的研究人員決定調(diào)查流感對(duì)于男女的不同影響。

The study, which was published in Biology of Sex Differences, stated that while it's commonly known that women tend to suffer more seriously from the flu than men, the reason why this is hasn't yet been confirmed.

這項(xiàng)研究發(fā)表在性別差異生物學(xué)，陳述了為什么女性的流感癥狀比男性更嚴(yán)重，具體的原因還沒(méi)有被證實(shí)。

The team carried out the study by infecting live mice and human cells extracted from male humans with a non-lethal dose of H1N1, an Influenza A strain. This particular strain of influenza, which is also known as “swine flu”, caused a global flu pandemic between 2009 and 2010 that caused more than 18,000 deaths around the world.

該研究通過(guò)在活老鼠和從男性細(xì)胞提取物中，注入非致命的甲型流感病毒H1N1。這種流感就是眾所周知的豬流感，曾經(jīng)在2009年和2010年在全球蔓延，造成全球18000人的死亡。

 

The researchers found that the male mice and the human cells produced more amphiregulin when infected with the influenza strain.Man flu could be real, according to new study.

研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，在染上流感病毒以后，公鼠和人類(lèi)細(xì)胞能夠生成更多的雙向調(diào)節(jié)因子。所以根據(jù)研究“男性流感”應(yīng)該是確有其事。

Amphiregulin is a growth factor that has been found to play a role in tissue repair and development. The increased production of amphiregulin in the male mice and male human cells is believed to have enabled a faster recovery time from the influenza strain.

雙向調(diào)節(jié)因子是一種生長(zhǎng)因子，在組織修復(fù)和發(fā)展中起著重要的作用。在公鼠和男性細(xì)胞中有更多地該因子的產(chǎn)生，也就是意味著能讓他們更快地從流感中恢復(fù)。

“The novel finding here is that females also have slower tissue-repair during recovery, due to relatively low production of amphiregulin,” said lead author Sabra Klein, PhD, who works as an associate professor at Bloomberg School.

“這一新發(fā)現(xiàn)揭示了，女性組織修復(fù)較慢的原因是，產(chǎn)生雙向調(diào)節(jié)因子的水平比較低。”該研究的主筆SabraKlein博士，同時(shí)也是在彭博學(xué)院的副教授這樣說(shuō)到。