Incorporating sex as a biological variable in neuroscience: What do we gain?

Margaret M. McCarthy; Catherine S. Woolley; Arthur P. Arnold

doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.137

Incorporating sex as a biological variable in neuroscience: What do we gain?

Margaret M. McCarthy^*, Catherine S. Woolley, Arthur P. Arnold

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Neurobiology

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	707-708
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Volume	18
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2017.137
State	Published - Dec 1 2017

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