Opinion: Focus on preclinical sex differences will not address women’s and men’s health disparities

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2015-11-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1516958112PMID 26534989PMCID PMC4640753
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