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Fourteen days after gonadectomy, the mice were intraperitoneally injected with AA (10 mg\/kg body weight\/day) daily for 2 days and sacrificed 7 days after the first injection. Body weight, kidney function, and tubular structure were assessed. When compared between male and female non-gonadectomized mice, AA-induced body weight loss was greater in male mice than in female mice. Functional and structural damages in male kidneys were markedly induced by AA injection, but kidneys in AA-injected female mice showed no or mild damages. Ovariectomy had no effect on AA-induced nephrotoxic acute kidney injury in female mice. However, orchiectomy significantly reduced body weight loss, kidney dysfunction, and tubular injury in AA-induced nephrotoxicity in male mice. 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