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Sex Differences in Immunology: More Severe Development of Experimental Pulmonary Hypertension in Male Rats Exposed to Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor Blockade

Background. The epidemiology of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is characterized by a female preponderance, whereas males share higher severity of the disease. Objective. To compare the severity of experimental PH between male and female athymic rats. Methods. PH was induced in 11 male and 11 female ath...

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Autores principales: Guihaire, Julien, Deuse, Tobias, Wang, Dong, Fadel, Elie, Reichenspurner, Hermann, Schrepfer, Sonja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4569774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26421302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/765292