Sex matters for mechanism

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 258, 2014, Pages 258fs40-

  Danska, Jayne S ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; POLICY; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLICY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84908229685     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3009859     Document Type: Note

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