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Urinary kallikrein excretion in a spontaneously hypertensive strain of rats

G Porcelli, G Bianchi, H R Croxatto

    Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.)
    |September 1, 1975
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