Nitric oxide and endothelin in the development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy. Potential targets for therapeutic interventions

Atherosclerosis - Tập 140 Số 1 - Trang 1-14 - 1998
Zhaoqian Liu1, Stephen M. Wildhirt1, Susanne Weismüller1, C. Schulze1, Nicole Conrad1, Bruno Reichart1
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377 Munich, Germany

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