爲什麼男性感冒好的要比女性快?大綱
“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”，是用來描述男在不舒服的情況下，通常會誇張他們的症狀。據說這是一個真實的現象。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 be scientific 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比我們想象的要弱，但是一項新研究揭示，有科學證據男性的恢復速度比女性要快。Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health decided to investigate the various effects that influenza can have on men and women.
來自約翰霍普金斯大學的彭博公共衛生學院的研究人員決定調查流感對於男女的不同影響。
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.
這項研究發表在性別差異生物學，陳述了爲什麼女性的流感症狀比男性更嚴重，具體的原因還沒有被證實。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.
該研究通過在活老鼠和從男性細胞提取物中，注入非致命的甲型流感病毒H1N1。這種流感就是衆所周知的豬流感，曾經在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 flu could be real, according to new study.
研究人員發現，在染上流感病毒以後，公鼠和人類細胞能夠生成更多的雙向調節因子。所以根據研究“男性流感”應該是確有其事。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.
雙向調節因子是一種生長因子，在組織修復和發展中起着重要的作用。在公鼠和男性細胞中有更多地該因子的產生，也就是意味着能讓他們更快地從流感中恢復。“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.
“這一新發現揭示了，女性組織修復較慢的原因是，產生雙向調節因子的水平比較低。”該研究的主筆Sabra Klein博士，同時也是在彭博學院的副教授這樣說到。
