Strategies and methods to study sex differences in cardiovascular structure and function: a guide for basic scientists.

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Published in Biol Sex Differ on December 12, 2011

Authors

Virginia M Miller1, Jay R Kaplan, Nicholas J Schork, Pamela Ouyang, Sarah L Berga, Nanette K Wenger, Leslee J Shaw, R Clinton Webb, Monica Mallampalli, Meir Steiner, Doris A Taylor, C Noel Bairey Merz, Jane F Reckelhoff

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Surgery, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA. miller.virginia@mayo.edu.

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