A radical idea: Men and women are different

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-6

  Bowles, Doug ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ESTROGEN; LOSARTAN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYGEN RADICAL; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE; SEX HORMONE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOSTERONE;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; ENZYME INHIBITION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; RATS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 0347987891     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardiores.2003.11.006     Document Type: Editorial

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