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Parkinson’s Sex Differences: Male Flies Show Stronger Rotenone Stress

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A 2026 Drosophila Parkinson’s model exposed male and female flies to 500 μM rotenone. By 60 days, male flies had worse survival/climbing than female flies; the paper is a vulnerability screen, not evidence that the same genes are ready human biomarkers.1 Research Highlights 500 μM rotenone split male and female flies: Iyer et al. used …

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