Human umbilical endothelial cells (HUVECs) have a sex: Characterisation of the phenotype of male and female cells

Biology of Sex Differences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Addis, Roberta ^a   Campesi, Ilaria ^a,b   Fois, Marco ^a   Capobianco, Giampiero ^a   Dessole, Salvatore ^a   Fenu, Grazia ^a   Montella, Andrea ^a   Cattaneo, Maria Grazia ^c   Vicentini, Lucia M ^c   Franconi, Flavia ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOSTRUCTURES AND BIOSYSTEMS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d Assessorato alle Politiche per la Persona   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Birth weight; HUVECs; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924240717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20426410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13293-014-0018-2     Document Type: Article

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