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Reporting of sex as a variable in cardiovascular studies using cultured cells
7 Nov 2011
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Chromosomal complement, including that provided by the sex chromosomes, influences expression of proteins and molecular signaling in every cell. However, less than 50% of the scientific studies published in 2009 using experimental animals reported sex as a biological variable. Because every cell has a sex, we conducted a literature review to determine the extent to which sex is reported as a variable...
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