{"id":232057,"date":"2026-02-25T05:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/monocyte-derived-il-10-drives-sex-differences-in-pain-duration"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:58:25","slug":"monocyte-derived-il-10-drives-sex-differences-in-pain-duration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/monocyte-derived-il-10-drives-sex-differences-in-pain-duration","title":{"rendered":"Monocyte-derived IL-10 drives sex differences in pain duration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/monocyte-derived-il-10-drives-sex-differences-in-pain-duration2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new <i><i>Science<\/i> Immunology<\/i> study suggests that IL-10-producing monocytes help resolve pain faster in male mice and humans when compared with females, which could inform therapeutics for sex-specific pain conditions.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Peripheral monocytes and IL-10 are associated with shorter pain duration in males in both mice and humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Science Immunology study suggests that IL-10-producing monocytes help resolve pain faster in male mice and humans when compared with females, which could inform therapeutics for sex-specific pain conditions. Peripheral monocytes and IL-10 are associated with shorter pain duration in males in both mice and humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}