Akt like a woman: Gender differences in susceptibility to cardiovascular disease

Circulation Research

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 975-977

  Sugden, Peter H ^a   Clerk, Angela ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Akt; Apoptosis; Cardiac myocytes; Estrogen; Gender

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROTEIN KINASE B;

APOPTOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0035947752     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hh1001.091864     Document Type: Editorial

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