Glutathione might exert an important function in caerulein-stimulated amylase release in isolated rat pancreatic

Honggang Yu1, Hanne Klonowski-Stumpe, Reinhard Lüthen

  • 1Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.

Pancreas
|December 13, 2001
PubMed
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