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Experimental Diabetes Research
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 176361, 11 pages
The Role of Rho Kinase in Sex-Dependent Vascular Dysfunction in Type 1 Diabetes
1The Department of Veterans Affairs Iowa City Health Care System, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, IA 52246, USA
2Department of Internal Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, IA 52242, USA
3Department of Pharmacology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, IA 52242, USA
Received 17 September 2009; Revised 1 December 2009; Accepted 14 January 2010
Academic Editor: Subrata K. Chakrabarti
Copyright © 2010 Daniel W. Nuno and Kathryn G. Lamping. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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