Nature Medicine
3, 493 - 494 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0597-493
Estrogen receptor  — Getting in on the action?Jan-Åke GustafssonDepartments of Medical Nutrition and Bioscience Novum HS, Karolinska Institutet S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden Recent findings in mice hint that ER and not ER may mediate some of the cardiovascular benefits of estrogen (pages 545−548).
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